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Fishing interests push to roll back the world's biggest set of ocean reserves as Secretary Zinke prepares recommendations.Click on the link below for the full story.

This year, Chile will host the Fourth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC4), and Patagon Journal has the honor of being a media partner of the event, which will take place between September 4 and 8 in La Serena.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Big reductions in no-take marine protected areas are being considered, going beyond those recommended by an earlier federal government review.Click on the link below to read the full story.

The small Pacific nation of the Cook Islands passed legislation last week to create one of the world's largest ocean preserves...7,000 times its land size

The Northern Marianas are not the only islands in the Pacific to have a large marine protected area that restricts industrial fishing...Our Mariana Trench Monument Islands Unit is about 42,000 square kilometers and covers about 5% of the US EEZ around our islands.Click on the link below to read t

The Tui Macuata Ratu Wiliame Katonivere hopes other provinces in the country will make an effort to properly manage and protect their iqoliqoli.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Two University of Rhode Island students are sailing to remote islands in the Pacific Ocean to study any damage to coral reefs from climate change...The Phoenix Islands Protected Area, or PIPA, is one of the last remaining coral wildernesses on Earth.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Marine protected areas span a range of habitats, including the open ocean, coastal areas, inter-tidal zones, estuaries, and the Great Lakes.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Fiji's understanding of particular sensitive sea areas (PSSA) in the marine environment is expected to notch up another level, thanks to the latest collaboration by the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji (MSAF), the Office for the London Convention/Protocol and Ocean Affairs and International