How to pronounce“marine protected”in English

The proportion of marine protected areas for which that is true is down in the 1% to 2% mark.

the most successful marine protected areas in the Caribbean, from fly fishing tourism.

Some of the best marine protected areas in the Caribbean are fly fishing reserves.

a huge area of marine protected areas.

So suddenly marine protected areas, which really are the poor cousin.

associated with a marine protected area.

So there's this idea of marine protected areas, which is what I think you were referring to.

And people assume that what a marine protected area means is you can't go fishing, and you can't dump things in it,

in creating the largest network of marine protected areas on Earth.

We've created some very large marine protected areas in the world over the last decade thanks to some fairly inspired people, and we can do it.

It's a story of marine protected areas and the ecosystems actually returning and the fisheries coming back.

So we helped set up this incredible marine protected area and if any of you ever get to go to the Solomons it is worth seeing this place.

And the problem with that is that the definition of marine protected area is really flexible.

What generally happens is that there's a thing called a marine protected area, but there are lots of things that are allowed.

It's a political problem that if you have a marine protected area, it has to be a no-take area.

The two things have to fit together-- fisheries management and marine protected areas-- because fish move.

And we're also seeing a growing appetite for things like marine protected areas.

uh this data was used uh in the establishment of a marine protected area the largest on the planet in palao uh

male in audience #1: versus areas that didn't have marine protected area.

Well, I'm definitely interested in marine protected areas.

And the dark blue or black line are communities that don't have a marine protected area. And you can see, look at income for example, between communities that don't have marine protected

It's not giving in to lobbyists and it's enforcement of policies that will make marine protected areas really work.

And I want to talk a little bit about the mechanics of creating these marine protected areas because I think one of the really compelling threads from your book

And your organization has been putting in place these marine protected areas.

--is either in an area it shouldn't be, as in a marine protected area, or taking stocks that it's not licensed to take, the surveillance catches them.

And there's this very laudable idea of 30 by 30-- that we should protect 30% of the world's oceans, that they should be a marine protected area, by 2030.

Just to parse that slightly, I mean, if you create a marine protected area, as we have in, for example, Lyme Bay on the South

But a lot of them are wide-ranging, and so you've got to have a pretty large marine protected area.

But we got to get more-- right now, it's about 1% of the world's oceans are marine protected areas.

And through the work of the Nature Conservancy, but also because of an enlightened leader, a local leader in this community, they created a marine protected area between these two

male in audience #1: Do you have data of the place that had later a marine protected area before it had the marine protected area?