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A school of blue mao-mao fish stream over kelp in New Zealand's Poor Knights Marine Reserve. After 20 years of no-take protection, this reserve has been restored to an ecosystem of great diversity and abundance.

A short-tailed stingray rides the currents through an underwater canyon in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. New Zealand, praised as a world leader in marine protection, considers the ecological preservation of such seascapes to be in its national…

Image Caption = Environmentally friendly aquaculture comapines like Snapperfarm in Puerto Rico are filling a void left by declining stocks in the wild. This open-ocean system, with deepwater cages in high current areas that disperse excrement from…

Large female Mako Shark being finned at shark camp near Santa Rosalia, Mexico.

Thresher shark caught in gill net, Gulf of California, Mexico

Shortfin Mako Shark off the coast of California

Mobula ray caught in gill net, Gulf of California, Mexico. Nets used to catch sharks also catch many other species of marine animals.
Image Title = Incidental Catch

Manta Ray leaping out of the ocean in Mexico's Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).

Dead Bluefin Tuna in tuna ranching company's (Ecolo Fish) cages - Mediterranean Sea, Spain

To supply the world's sushi markets, the magnificent bluefin giant tuna is fished in the Mediterranean at four times the sustainable rate. These bluefin are being fattened off Spain at one of 69 ranches that have sprung up in the Mediterranean in the…