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Fishing ban in international Arctic waters remains elusive

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News December 5, 2016
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More than a year ago, five Arctic nations signed a declaration pledging to keep their fishing fleets out of the international waters in the Arctic Ocean, an area increasingly ripe for exploitation as summer sea ice diminishes — and perhaps increasingly vulnerable with so little known about its ecology.

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