Ocean habitats are affected by lots of different factors. Sunlight – The amount of sunlight affects the type of marine life that live there. More organisms are found in sunlit zones. Salinity ...

Plans to establish a new marine nature reserve off the east coast of the Isle of Man in a bid to protect blue carbon habitats have been revealed. The initiative aims to protect newly discovered ...

Then it will become biofouled – that means it gets covered with marine ... protected zones where fishing practices or underwater developments are limited. By providing suitable habitats (like ...

“California and UCSB have had a huge impact globally on how MPAs and other ocean zones are designed ... are a network of discrete marine or estuarine areas in state waters designed to protect or ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service called for designating ... the orcas and one filed in August to establish a “whale protection zone” in the heart of their Salish Sea habitat where boat traffic ...

to cover additional marine habitats and grey seal haul-out sites. Views have also been asked for on plans to update existing eelgrass conservation zones to reflect surveys showing their expansion ...