MEA 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Thermal Pollution, Eutrophication, Cape Lookout National Seashore
Document Summary
Fisheries management draws on fisheries science in order to find ways to protect fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is possible. Consumer and purchase seafood from healthy, thriving fisheries. Just think of mpas as the underwater equivalent of national parks! Marine protected areas (mpa) are protected areas of seas, oceans or large lakes. Mpas restrict human activity for a conservation purpose, typically to protect natural or cultural resources. We need more marine protected areas in the right places where the conservation need is most urgent and where the potential for their contribution, for both humans and wildlife, at its highest. With well-designed and managed mpa"s we can boost the health of ecosystems and even turn around the downward trends of marine biodiversity. Maintaining biodiversity and providing refuges for endangered and commercial species. Protecting critical habitats from damage by destructive fishing practices and other human activities and allowing them to recover.