[Coral-List] Palau MPA backfires

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 I find this article misleading and badly articulated in many ways but I won't go into details for lack of time. A more appropriate title would be: "How an unsustainable economic model and lifestyle backfire..."Francesca
    On Sunday, June 7, 2020, 01:39:00 AM GMT+2, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:  
 
 Palau's marine sanctuary backfires, leading to increased consumption of
reef fish.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/palaus-marine-sanctuary-backfires-leading-to-increased-consumption-of-reef-fish
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/palaus-marine-sanctuary-backfires-leading-to-increased-consumption-of-reef-fish?fbclid=IwAR3jUETEBp6hICHD6MLmASXIF-EaLmgtg0Sg8tu3K9hPE8LqHD7XPXVDcw0>

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science
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