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Huge national marine conservation area established off B.C.’s Central Coast

The area, called Mia-yaltwa Ha'lidzogm hoon, means 'Realm of the Salmon, Home of the Salmon' in a hybrid composite name drawn from the Indigenous languages of the partner Nations.

‘Living library’: inside the marine biobanks racing to protect ocean species from extinction

Australia’s biobanks store everything from seeds of native plants to the cells and tissue of threatened animal speciesIn the mudflats of Swan Bay, Victoria, royal spoonbills sweep...

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has fou...

A Dive to Remember: St Abbs and the Wolffish

Tom Ingram makes the case for voluntary marine reserves with a visit to St Abbs in south-eastern Scotland

Council unveils marine conservation areas

Inside Scotland’s hidden reef and the fight to save it

IT’S late September, and I’ve been invited to snorkel in Loch Linnhe, a giant sea loch that stretches from the Firth of Lorn to Fort William. Even in a wetsuit, it’s cold, at 12 de...

A campaign to protect one of the planet’s only expanding kelp forests takes shape

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Diving in the Great African Seaforest, with its tightly packed towering kelp stipes that can rise up to 9 meters, or 30 feet, from the seabed, is a surrea...

Hundreds submit on Fisheries proposal to manage shellfish in Auckland, Coromandel

The review comes after the government ban on taking several species from the WhangaparДЃoa Peninsula, Kawau Bay, and ЕЊmaha Bay.

More than 100 deep-sea creatures discovered in Coral Sea

Marine species were found by researchers onboard research vessel Investigator

Jersey Approves New Marine Protected Area Plan

The British island of Jersey has approved an ambitious marine protection plan, nearly quadrupling the area of its seas protected from damaging fishing practices.