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Fishing for a Recovery
François Mosnier, et al., Planet Tracker Fisheries & Aquaculture
Along the coast of Chile’s Valparaíso region, a quiet revolution is ongoing. Seven years ago, a community of fishers in Maitencillo voluntarily decided to set aside 19% of the area they normally fished for marine conservation. Establishing a grassroots marine reserve was a difficult decision that cost them money initially but it paid off, with a rapid increase in abundance and size of many marine species. Since then, four more neighbouring communities
have emulated this success and there too, in only two years, positive change has been noted, with fish returning to areas they were previously absent from.
Read the full report here.
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