RE: Marine reserve around Rena. The disaster of the Rena has given temporary protection to the marine life that is now flourishing around the wreck. Let us capitalise on this happy accident and support those who want to make the area a permanent, formal marine reserve.

Then the Rena would become a mecca for recreational divers and a hotspot for marine diversity, overflowing into the surrounding waters and boosting the fishing beyond, as has happened around the margins of the Leigh Marine Reserve.

A Graeme, Otumoetai