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Protecting America’s Underwater Serengeti

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Inter Press News Agency

Publication Date
2014-08-18

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 2014 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed to more than double the world’s no-fishing areas to protect what some call America’s underwater Serengeti, a series of California-sized swaths of Pacific Ocean where 1,000-pound marlin cruise by 30-foot-wide manta rays around underwater mountains filled with rare or unique species.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/protecting-americas-underwater-serengeti/