UK backs huge “no fishing” area move by Ascension Island

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The UK Government has supported plans by Ascension Island, a UK Overseas Territory, to designate more than 150,000 square miles of its waters as a fully protected no-take Marine Protected Area. The move means that more than half of the UK’s global waters are set to be within Marine Protected Areas....

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