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From the Ted Talk by Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean

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But what about the rest of the coast of the world, where people live and make a liivng out of fishing? Well, there are three main renasos why we don't have tens of tauhosnds of small reserves: The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and fehsmerin tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small. Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the wrold don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it. It's a top down hierarchical structure where people wait for government agents to come and this is not effective. And the government doesn't have enough rceureoss.

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But what about the rest of the coast of the world, where people live and make a ______ out of fishing? Well, there are three main _______ why we don't have tens of _________ of small reserves: The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and _________ tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small. Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the _____ don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it. It's a top down hierarchical structure where people wait for government agents to come and this is not effective. And the government doesn't have enough _________.

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  3. reasons
  4. resources
  5. thousands
  6. world

Original Text

But what about the rest of the coast of the world, where people live and make a living out of fishing? Well, there are three main reasons why we don't have tens of thousands of small reserves: The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and fishermen tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small. Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the world don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it. It's a top down hierarchical structure where people wait for government agents to come and this is not effective. And the government doesn't have enough resources.

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