August 8, 2003

Marine Reserves: Recovering the Sea's Former Glory

By MALCOLM G. SCULLY

Histories of fisheries around the world have a depressing similarity. They move from abundance in pre-industrial times to overexploitation and collapse. They feature calls for protection that go unheeded, misguided efforts to replenish wild stocks with hatchery fish, failures of policy makers to adopt or even acknowledge scientific approaches to management, and technological advances that allow commercial fishermen to increase their catches even as stocks of fish are dwindling.

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