South Africa has a fairly long coastline of 2798km, so isn't it astounding that about 20% of our coastal areas have been declared MPAs (Marine Protected Areas) - stretches of cost where commercial fishing has been banned?
One day, but not right now, I'll go to the effort of tracing all the areas on a proper map, but for now, here's a link to a page on our government's Marine and Coastal Management website - it contains a terribly-formatted list of all areas marked as MPAs. Sorry. :)
Ali
Whenever I searched for South African data I made your experiences, too. :D
kevin
What is the large red Lego looking thing behind the ship? Can you show us a picture of that?
Paul
Post authorHi Kevin, yes, sure, here you go: Red Coca-Cola Robot.
Tara Booth
Funny bit of trivia for you, SA coastline is actually not that long. Sure 3000km sounds long, but it’s only 6.3cm per person. 20% of the length of the UK’s coastline. In fact, when you calculate the EEA (Exclusive Economice Area) off our coastline and compare it to the total terrestrial area, SA is almost exactly 50% land and 50% water.