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Shrinking a national marine protected area near Hawaii and allowing fishing are not in the nation"s best interests.Click on the link below to read the full article.

A notable intervention conceived by marine scientists to arrest the deteriorating quality of ocean habitats and declining resources is the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs).Click on the link below to read the full article.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted two resolutions that aim to advance implementation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.Click on the link below to read the full article.

If MPAs and the ecosystems and species within them had a legal right to be healthy and managed well, what effect would this have on sites" According to a campaign that proposes such legal rights, one outcome would be the end of the problem of paper parks.Click on the link below to read the full a

National continues push for ocean sanctuary. National MP Nick Smith has lodged a Member"s Bill to establish the 620,000km2 ocean sanctuary around the Kermadec Islands in New Zealand"s most northern islands.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended changes to marine national monuments including Pacific Remote Islands.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Mexico"s government has created the largest ocean reserve in North America around a Pacific archipelago regarded as its crown jewel...Fishing, mining and new hotels will be prohibited in the "biologically spectacular" Revillagigedo archipelago.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Sweeping new protections for Antarctica's Ross Sea will come into effect on Friday 1 December.

The current issue of Marine Ecosystems and Management, the sister newsletter of MPA News, features a review of the latest research on ocean plastics, with an audience of ocean managers in mind.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) " areas of the ocean set aside for long-term conservation aims " are the only mainstream conservation-focussed, area-based measure to increase the quality and extent of ocean protection.Click on the link below to access the full brief.