THE LARGEST NETWORK OF OCEANIC PROTECTED AREAS IN THE WORLD

This magnificent submarine world must be protected. 

Access BBC News (and watch a footage of peculiarities of coral life):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29373068

[Photo above from Mother Nature Network (www.mnn.com)]

US President Barack Obama has signed a memorandum to expand a vast marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument will become the largest network of oceanic protected areas in the world.

The memorandum bans commercial fishing, deep-sea mining and other extraction of underwater resources in the area.

The Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument (PRIMNM), at  200 nautical miles from the unique atolls, encompasses more than 490,000 square miles (1,269,051 km2), an area roughly three times the size of California.