The Australian Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is the largest network of marine reserves in the world, and includes both 'no fishing' ('no-take') and 'no-entry' zones as well as fished areas.

May 3, 2021 — Green (no-take) and yellow (limited take) fishing zones within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park equally support a great diversity of fish species.

Fishing exclusion zones has more the doubled the biomass of coral trout on the Great Barrier Reef. Researchers say the "green zone" system of exclusion could be adopted by other communities ...

Protected zones of the Great Barrier Reef benefit fish even at the relatively lightly-fished northern reefs, according to a study published Nov. 8, 2017, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

Marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef are outperforming expectations. On many protected reefs, fish densities are two to three times higher than in zones where fishing is allowed.

Coral trout are thriving in marine protected areas in the Great Barrier Reef, but the no-take zones are having a smaller effect on other reef residents, a new 10-year report card shows.

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the largest living coral reef system on Earth, about 300 times larger ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event.

Since 1966, the Great Barrier Reef—from Lizard Island to Cairns—has hosted thousands of anglers looking for their grander black. Before the early 1960s, no one really knew about it—few local fishermen ...

It also contributes $4.8 billion annually to Australia’s economy and supports 64,000 jobs in tourism, fishing and research, according to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.