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<p>The Government's commitment to establish a Blue Belt of marine protection around
the Overseas Territories is on track to deliver 4 million square kilometres of marine
protection by 2020. In delivering the Blue Belt initiative, the Centre for Environment,
Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and the Marine Management Organisation are helping
to ensure that the large scale Marine Protected Areas which have been designated,
or are being developed, around the UK Overseas Territories are effectively managed,
monitored and enforced. Traditional surveillance techniques, including sea and aerial
patrols, are also being supplemented with trials of new techniques including satellite
surveillance (radar and optical imagery); autonomous underwater vehicles; and unmanned
aerial systems, to detect any illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.</p>
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