Photos: periodic closure of fishing grounds boosts octopuses and helps coastal communities

Mongabay
By Rebecca KesslerJun 17, 2015, 2:17 pm75 pts
For communities that depend on fishing for their livelihoods, fishing bans as a way to conserve marine life are not always popular. But some villages in southwest Madagascar seem to have hit upon a strategy to reap economic gains from bans. Temporarily closing down portions of their octopus-fishing areas every…

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