Fuckin' A, man. Fuckin' A.

[zotz]

The Lamlash Bay no-take zone's to go ahead. Well, that's good news. It's very small in itself, but it's cautiously expected to make a reasonable difference to nearby waters, and now that the principle's been adopted we can maybe see many more. I spoke to a couple of people from COAST last year - they seem to have worked very hard for this

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[steer]

I dived a marine reserve in the Med last year and it was noticably richer in wildlife than the other two dives I did in the area. It had only been in place a couple of years too. Of course this could be coincidence or just what I'd been told to expect.

It gives me the feeling that undersea ecosystems can be pretty damn resilient if we used farming methods less ruinously damaging. I certainly hope it's the case.

[lsur]

Good news - every bit counts and it's never clear to what extent all the small areas fit together.

[jgbingo]

Marine reserves in NZ appear to be extremely successful, if only (as advocates point out) because it tends to highlight horribly large differences between them and non-reserve areas where the open-cast fish miners have been.