A request by the Laguna Bluebelt Coalition to extend the local MPA boundaries through South Laguna to Dana Point, will be ...

Jeremy Bishop. In 2022, the world agreed at a U.N. biodiversity summit to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030.

Marine protected areas, or MPAs, act as sanctuaries for marine life. Scientists on board fishing boats found that the marine protections put in place had also boosted tuna species just outside the ...

The Scottish government has scrapped its controversial plans for Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs). The proposals to restrict fishing and other human activities in some coastal areas were ...

Increases in catch rates for fish such as tuna have been demonstrated near recently created Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas (LSMPAs), including Revillagigedo in Mexico. This shows that LSPMAs ...

Santa Barbara’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), or state-sanctioned ocean conservation zones, are now subject to change — whether it’s stripping protections or expanding them. Last year, thanks to an ...

The bill creating the Protected Marine Area, Blue Hole, in the South Atlantic and currently under consideration in the Argentine congress has received strong criticism from the Argentine fishing ...

A new Research and Monitoring Plan has been launched to help support the management of the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area, MPA. The announcement was done in the ...