An international deal has been reached to prevent commercial fishing in the High Arctic for at least the next 16 years.
“Canada has reached an historic agreement in principle today in Washington, D.C. to prevent unregulated commercial fishing in the high seas of the central Arctic Ocean,” Fisheries and Oceans
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