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With ice melting, U.S. pushes for limits on fishing in Arctic Ocean
2014-02-22 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: U.S. officials are heading to Greenland for a three-day meeting to persuade other Arctic nations to place a moratorium on high-seas fishing in the Arctic Ocean, where climate change is melting the permanent ice cap and allowing trawlers in for the first time in human history. The United States is proposing an agreement "that would close the international waters of the Arctic Ocean to commercial fishing until there is a good scientific foundation on which to base management of any potential fishing,'...
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