U.S. Federal Panel Votes to Restrict Fishing in Arctic
February 10, 2009 2 min. read

Last Thursday, a U.S. federal fishery panel based in Seattle voted to restrict nearly 200,000 square nautical miles of American waters north of the Bering Strait from industrial fishing. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council made the move in response to concerns over global warming rather than overfishing. Melting ice has made the waters, which […]

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Coming Soon: Arctic Blog
February 10, 2009 1 min. read

Welcome to the Arctic blog, the latest addition to the Foreign Policy Blogs network.

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