Marine ecology: reserves do have a key role in fisheries.
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef proves a 100-year old conjecture correct: marine reserves do replenish populations in surrounding fishing grounds, while modern reserve networking theory is validated by exchange of offspring of animals among protected areas.
Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. callum.roberts@york.ac.uk
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D000818:Animals; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005398:Fisheries; D010473:Perciformes