Marine Protected Areas Success Stories: No Trawl No Problem!
🐚 A benefit of marine protected areas (MPA) is the “spillover effect”.
The spillover effect is one way that no-take marine reserves have a positive influence on adjacent fisheries. Target fish migrate outside the boundaries of protected areas as populations increase where they can be caught by fishers. In the Irish Sea, a network of marine protected areas around the Isle of Man helped to recover commercial stocks of king scallops. After five small areas were closed to bottom trawling, king scallops were five times more abundant in non-trawled areas, increasing their reproductive potential by over 1,200%.
🤝 Pacific Wild is supporting the protection of 30% of Canadian oceans by 2030 thanks to the timely implementation of a network of MPAs in the Great Bear Sea.
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