Abstract
MORE THAN 195,000 sq miles in the Pacific Ocean will now be protected as marine national monuments thanks to action by President George W. Bush. The Jan. 6 announcement largely prohibits commercial fishing, waste dumping, and extraction activities in most of the areas, but allows research and recreation, and it leaves open the possibility of fishing. “For seabirds and marine life, these places will be sanctuaries to grow and thrive,” Bush said when he made the designations. Conservation groups hailed the move, noting that Bush has safeguarded more marine areas than any other president. The protected areas will allow scientists to study a perfectly healthy ocean ecosystem that can act as a baseline when they examine less protected ocean areas, says Jay Nelson, a zoologist with the Pew Charitable Trusts, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. In fact, only 0.1% of the world’s oceans are protected, far less than the 10 to 13% of terrestrial ...
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