{"id":575986,"date":"2019-02-06T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=faf033ad6a45ff1d0b73b937993db530"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:20:01","slug":"when-is-a-marine-protected-area-not-a-marine-protected-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=575986","title":{"rendered":"When is a Marine Protected Area not a Marine Protected Area?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent paper on the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in northern Europe (&#8220;Elevated trawling inside protected areas undermines conservation outcomes in a global fishing hot spot&#8221;) reveals that industrial-scale fishing \u2013 primarily the use of bottom-trawl fishing \u2013 is widespread in so-called protected areas that were established specifically to safeguard highly biodiverse marine and coastal habitats across the North Sea. We welcome this important and timely piece of research. Unfortunately, a number of the press reports that covered this paper&#8217;s findings included sensationalist \u2013 and misleading \u2013 headlines that are potentially very damaging to the cause of marine conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent paper on the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in northern Europe (&#8220;Elevated trawling inside protected areas undermines conservation outcomes in a global fishing hot spot&#8221;) reveals that industrial-scale fishing &ndash; primarily the use of bottom-trawl fishing &ndash; is widespread in so-called protected areas that were established specifically to safeguard highly biodiverse marine and coastal habitats across the North Sea. We welcome this important and timely piece of research. Unfortunately, a number of the press reports that covered this paper&#8217;s findings included sensationalist &ndash; and misleading &ndash; headlines that are potentially very damaging to the cause of marine conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575987,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575986\/revisions\/575987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}