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Protected Marine Reserves Are Not So Safe

from the June, 2012 issue of Undercurrent  

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We're referring particularly to remote areas lacking enough funding for full-time monitoring. The Washington Post reported last month that authorities in Indonesian Papua caught 33 poachers at Kawe Marine Protected Area, Southeast Asia's largest no-take reserve, who had taken sharks, manta rays and sea cucumbers worth more than $160,000. But after confiscating the illegal catch and gear, the nine patrol officers had to let the poachers go because they lacked the manpower to take over the boats....