Sea Save Foundation
Contributor
The percent of Australia’s marine reserves open to commercial fishing is proposed to go up from 64 to 80. Australia would be the first nation “to wind back its ocean protection measures.” The proposal is open to public comments and could be implemented as early as 2018. The Australian government is also considering cutting down funding for marine protected areas and “introducing blue zones to permit underwater oil and gas mining.”
Read more here (article #3).
Read more here (article #3).