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Letter: A ready source of wrecks to protect marine parks

Published 17 January 2024

From William Hughes-Games, Waipara, New Zealand

You note that shipwrecks not only provide refuges for fish, but foil bottom trawling. A good place to put wrecks would be in protected marine reserves. A good source of wrecks would be boats caught fishing in such reserves (9 December 2023, p 13).

Issue no. 3474 published 20 January 2024

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