For years, illegal fishing vessels operated near Australia’s Heard and McDonald Islands. Here’s what happened after they were stopped.
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Industrial fishing has caused immense damage to ocean life, but given the right protection, the sea has miraculous powers of recovery.
For years, Australia and New Zealand have been united in working for sustainable fishing in the South Pacific. That just changed.
Most of the carbon disturbed by trawls is unreactive and difficult to convert to CO₂.
It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.
Australia needs to drop the deception that square kilometres say anything meaningful about conservation.
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Professor of Marine Biology, Bangor University
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Senior research scientist, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Professor, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Research Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow in Marine Ecology, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Research Associate in Marine Ecology, University of Tasmania