The UK Government is to ban commercial fishing in a million square kilometre section of ocean around four islands in the Pacific and Atlantic . Commercial fishing will be banned in all of Pitcairn The 840,000 sq km area around the Pitcairn Islands will be one of the largest marine protected areas in the world . Also to be protected is 500 sq km around St Helena with areas around the south Atlantic islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to be protected from 2019 and 2020 respectively . The plan coincides with warnings from scientists , which we reported today , that pirates ' hunting and fishing is causing an unprecedented level of extinction in sea turtles .
The UK Government is to ban commercial fishing in a million square kilometre section of ocean around four islands in the Pacific and Atlantic . The 840,000 sq km area around the Pitcairn Islands will be one of the largest marine protected areas in the world . Also to be protected is 500 sq km around St Helena with areas around the south Atlantic islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to be protected from 2019 and 2020 respectively . The plan coincides with warnings from scientists , which we reported today , that pirates ' hunting and fishing is causing an unprecedented level of extinction in sea turtles .