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STEVE WEINMAN, EDITOR
SO WHEN DID THE IDEA OF Marine Protected Areas become a bit of a joke? For many years I would hear about new MPAs being established and think: great - hard-working conservationists have struck another blow for the planet. How long can it be before the ocean is one big protected network?
How naive! The seabed and what goes on there is hidden from the view of most of the world’s citizens - almost everyone, in fact, except scuba-divers.
And while divers bring back constant reports in the form of video and photos, unless broadcast in a Blue Planet those images are seen mostly by other divers.