Prohibit fishing locally to protect biodiversity from ocean hotspots

45 expeditions from around the world. 29 marine protected areas (MPA), representing 6.9 million square kilometres of ocean surface, more than twice that of India. More than 300 publications in scientific journals peer-reviewed. The Pristine Seas mission, which began in 2008, has not to blush its achievements. Launched by Enric Sala, a former professor at the Scripps Institution Oceanography (California), now an explorer and photographer in the N…