In 1995, local fisherman convinced the authorities to proclaim their waters a marine reserve.

1995年，当地渔民说服政府将这片海域列为海洋保护区。

The new marine reserve, now the largest in the Pacific, will permit no fishing or mining.

这个新建的的海洋保护区现在是太平洋上最大的保护区，此处将不允许捕鱼和采矿。

The Mexican government has created a marine reserve around the chain of 4 volcanic islands off the country's Pacific coast.

墨西哥政府在国家太平洋海岸四个火山岛链周围设立了一个海军保护区。

Japan is exploring some of its oceanic marine reserves to build strategic reserves.

日本正在探索其部分海洋海洋保护区以建立战略保护区。

Unveiled recently by environment minister Tony Burke, the proposal would be the last in a series of proposed marine reserves around Australia's coast.

日前由环境部长托尼·伯克公布的这个拟议的珊瑚海保护区将是在澳大利亚海岸拟设的一系列海洋保护区中的最后一处。

The world's largest existing marine reserve, established last year by the British government in the Indian Ocean, spans 654,000 kilometers and is a no-take zone throughout.

去年，关国政府在印度洋建立了世界上现存最大的海洋保护区，面积达65.4万平方公里，且整片海城均为禁取区。

And a new study has found that the creation of a huge marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean led to the recovery of commercially valuable fish species.

一项新的研究发现，在太平洋建立的一个巨大的海洋保护区，导致了具有商业价值的鱼类种类的恢复。

Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves.

可以完全禁止底拖网捕捞等有害做法，我们可以建立禁止所有捕鱼活动的海洋保护区，以帮助生态系统自我恢复。

But the scheme is attracting criticism from scientists and conservation groups, who argue that the government hasn't gone far enough in protecting the Coral Sea, or in other marine reserves in the coastal network.

但这项计划遭到了科学家与保护组织的批评，他们认为，政府对珊瑚海及沿海保护网络中其他海洋保护区所做的保护工作还远远不够。