Kiribati. Photo source: ©© KevGuy4101
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A tiny island nation, about halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, that controls a vast area of the Pacific Ocean has announced it will ban all commercial fishing in a massive marine park that is the size of California…
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Kiribati Bans Fishing in Crucial Marine Sanctuary, Science Daily (05-09-2014)
The ban would allow populations of fish depleted by excessive fishing to return to natural levels in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), a patch of ocean the size of California studded with pristine, uninhabited atolls, making this potentially the most effective marine reserve in the world…
