Talk:Marine park

Description of Marine Park
This description of Marine Park seems unclear. I always thought of a Marine Park as a park predominantly on the water designed to protect and conserve the area like a national or state park. Marine Parks usually permit public access to enjoy the “grounds”, but also limit development. This article integrates what seem more like amusement parks, such as oceanarium, marine mammal parks or aquariums. These are basically private, for profit businesses. Although most of these businesses tout rescuing animals & educating the public on oceanology, they don’t seem like marine parks in the true sense. In my opinion, this article is unclear by combining the two. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Recomendations to make this clearer
I recommend eliminating the sentence "A theme park featuring sea life may be a sort of combination of marine park, public aquarium, and zoo, with a variety of animals kept inside, outside in enclosed tanks, or outside in the sea, fenced in order to keep them from wandering off."

I also recommend eliminating the entire "Marine Theme parks around the globe" section & replacing it with a section that includes Marine parks like the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, etc. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 16:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Since no objections were posted, reworded article to focus description on marine parks as reserves or preserves and not “theme” type amusement parks. Theme type amusement parks are better classified as aquariums, marine mammal parks, oceanariums or zoos.  Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Overlap between marine parks and marine reserves
There does not seem to be a clear distinction between Marine parks and Marine reserves. The article on marine parks seems to treat marine reserves as a subset of marine parks. The NSW government uses another term: aquatic reserves. Should classification be based on official name or degree of restriction of activities to assist conservation or on some other basis, or should the articles be merged and lists pages established, perhaps based on country or continent? dinghy (talk) 04:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Also marine protected areas. How do they differ, or are these all much the same thing? &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 20:06, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

"refimprove' template, December 2017
A "refimprove' template have been added to the article because there are no citations supporting the content of the lead section.  Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

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97% of UK marine protected areas subject to bottom-trawling
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/09/revealed-97-of-uk-offshore-marine-parks-subject-to-destructive-fishing

John Cummings (talk) 14:25, 9 October 2020 (UTC)