COAST News
Great news about the positive impact of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), now from California. Unsurprisingly, the MPAs that have been established for longer, are doing best “Biomass of targeted fish species has increased in kelp and shallow rock ecosystems inside and outside of the northern Channel Islands MPAs (established in 2003)”. Our government needs to make sure Scottish MPAs have a proper baseline monitoring programme in place to establish, as they have in California.
Eight-year-old Sophia of Thousand Oaks points out a starfish at Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu
while spending the day with her family on July 24, 2013.
© MAYA SUGARMAN (Southern California Public Radio – 89.3KPCC)
while spending the day with her family on July 24, 2013.
© MAYA SUGARMAN (Southern California Public Radio – 89.3KPCC)
