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Kiribati Announces Fishing Ban in Its Marine Park
By Angela Messina, June 17, 2014 @ 09:07 AM (EST)
Source: National Geographic
Source: National Geographic
The president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati announced that commercial fishing would be banned beginning January 1, 2015, in the country’s Phoenix Island Protected Area. He made the announcement at the recent Our Ocean conference held in Washington, D.C.
President Anote Tong also announced that fishing would be banned around the southern Line Islands in order to allow the area to recover.
The Phoenix Island Protected Area was created in 2006 and is home to some of the most pristine and untouched coral reefs in the world, according to National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala. The park is about the size of California.
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