![]() Some clandestine artificial reef creation went on as early as the 1920s, but never on a large scale. In the United States, however, private rights to the seabed are virtually nonexistent. The private ownership of marine resources can be a very effective conservation tool. Thus, even though artificial reefs remain popular fishing sites, few of the people who fish them are directly involved in creating them. But elsewhere, very few ownership schemes developed. In Japan, the old fishing communities that first discovered the usefulness of artificial reefs gradually evolved into cooperatives that came to own the reefs outright, and today their reefs are well protected, productive resources. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long, they began creating the first artificial reefs, often out of nothing more than a pile of rocks. Fishing communities around the world learned hundreds of years ago to fish around natural reefs and other large objects underwater. ![]()
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