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Study documents intact coral atolls inside Marshall Islands' first marine sanctuary

Partnered on the 2023 Bikar and Bokak survey

In January 2025, the Marshall Islands banned fishing across 48,000 square kilometers around Bikar and Bokak, two uninhabited atolls in the northern Pacific. A study published Nov. 11, 2026, gives the first detailed ecological baseline of the sanctuary.

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