What are the motives for establishing marine protected areas and reserves? How do marine sanctuaries differ from reserves?
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With the great majority of commercial species overfished or fished to the limit, marine reserves and sanctuaries give some of these species' populations a change to recover. These protected areas allow habitats of marine life to recover in biodiversity and productivity, and the proven success of reserves in many types of ocean environments is having a "spillover" effect as protected species spread outside reserves. Although oil extraction is prohibited in both protected areas and reserves, other activities, such as fishing and laying of pipelines and fiber-optic cables, are allowed in protected areas but not in reserves.
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