Talk:Ascension Island Marine Protected Area

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... that Ascension Island has declared its entire ocean territory a protected area with no commercial fishing permitted? Source: Pew Trusts
- ALT1: ... that research undertaken to create the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area found it would be more economical to ban commercial fishing altogether than to sell fishing licences? Source: Muench et al. 2022: "It was concluded that the current number of licenses sold would not cover the monitoring and enforcement cost for option 1: partial closure of the EEZ"
- ALT2: ... that the South Atlantic Anomaly prevents some remote sensing methods from working over the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area? Source: Rowlands et a. 2019: "VIIRS night time vessel detection products are locally ineffective because of the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly"
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Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 39 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 14:47, 23 June 2024 (UTC).Reply

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:11, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Overall: Looks good. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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