180,000 Square Miles of the Bering Sea Made Off Limits to Destructive Bottom Trawling
Submitted by TreeHugger on Thursday, 31 July 2008No Comment
The Bering Sea isn’t exactly the easiest spot on the planet to fish, regardless of the technology used. This photo, by Nick Myers, shows just what sort of waves can occur in the Bering.
There’s no denying the fact that the world’s fisheries are endangered because of overfishing. In the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna are severely threatened, and the story is the same for many other commercial fish stocks. The pressure of too many boats, with too much technology, chasing too few animals coul…
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