We must protect not only what we understand

Marine protection is immensely important. Human society depends on the seas and the life in them being healthy for the fishing industry and so much more.

We are only beginning to understand these links and so we must protect not only what we understand.

I commend this plan for striking a good balance and note the important fact that the government now has a legal duty to protect our seas.

Interesting comment thrown up by Richard Black’s article on the latest bid to extend the marine protected areas around the UK from less than 1% to about 20%.

100 potential Marine Conservation Zones have been mapped out around the UK and will be officially designated as such, or not, within a year or so.

There is much work to do – but it can, and will, be done.

There is much more to oceans than fish.

There must be value before there is momentum to ‘protect,’ yet as the concerned member of the public mentions above, ‘we must protect not only what we understand.’

This is the challenge! Get out and about and explore the oceans!