The UK Government is to ban commercial fishing in a million square kilometre section of ocean around four islands in the the Pitcairn Islands and the Pitcairn Islands . The 840,000 sq km area around Atlantic will be one of the largest marine protected areas in the world. Commercial fishing will be banned in all of Pitcairn Also to be protected is a million square kilometre around St Helena with areas around the south Atlantic islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to be protected from today and 2020 respectively. The news coincides with warnings from scientists, which we reported today , that humans' hunting and fishing is causing an unprecedented level of extinction in sea life.
The UK Government is to ban commercial fishing in a million square kilometre section of ocean around four islands in the the Pitcairn Islands and the Pitcairn Islands . The 840,000 sq km area around Atlantic will be one of the largest marine protected areas in the world. Also to be protected is a million square kilometre around St Helena with areas around the south Atlantic islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to be protected from today and 2020 respectively. The news coincides with warnings from scientists, which we reported today , that humans' hunting and fishing is causing an unprecedented level of extinction in sea life.