Agreement bans commercial fishing across much of the Arctic, for now

Mongabay
Oct 4, 2018, 10:38 am267 pts
With the Arctic’s melting ice cover leaving the ocean ice-free for longer periods of time, new shipping routes are opening up, paving the way for future commercial activities. But under a new agreement, commercial fishing will be banned across a large chunk of the Central Arctic Ocean as a precautionary…

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