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Oceans in Peril: Protecting Marine Biodiversity

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Creating "national parks of the sea" may be the only effective way to reverse trends that have left 76 percent of world fish stocks fully- or over-exploited and marine biodiversity at severe risk, according to the Institute's latest report, Oceans in Peril: Protecting Marine Biodiversity.

Marine reserves are essential to protect the biodiversity that maintains ecosystem integrity, say the report's authors, Michelle Allsopp, Richard Page, Paul Johnston, and David Santillo, of the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter, U.K. Additionally, fisheries management must radically change from a single-species approach to one that is ecosystem based and that employs precautionary measures to tackle pollution and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that are changing the temperature and chemistry of the oceans.

"The oceans cannot save themselves," says Christopher Flavin, president of Worldwatch. "Collective commitments to thriving ecosystems are needed to save overfished species from being systematically depleted from compromised habitats."

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