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History |
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The first National Park in the world was established at Yellow Stone in USA in 1872. The establishments of similar park in the sea was in 1935 in Frolida, USA. |
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System |
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Studies on creating marine parks and evaluations of proposed sites were initiated in Japan, just as they have been elsewhere. As a result, it was decided to establish protected sea areas as extensions of national parks and quasi-national parks, and in 1970 the Natural Parks Law was amended to authorize the government to so designate regions of the sea with important underseascapes as “marine park zones.” | |
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Distribution |
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At present, there are sixty-four marine parks in Japan, distributed from the Shakotan Peninsula in Hokkaido, in the north, to the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, in the south. | |
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