Arctic Fishing Banned in Global Deal to Protect Marine Life – The Telegraph
Article Synopsis – The world’s major fishing nations – Canada, Russia, China, the U.S., the EU, Japan, Iceland, Denmark, and South Korea – have reached a deal to ban commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years. It covers an area of about 2.8m sq km – roughly the size of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to closing the area to fishing, the delegations have agreed to a joint program of scientific research and monitoring to identify species, their abundance, existing predator-prey relationships, and the pressures they face, including climate change. To read the actual article click here.