Climate Change Plays a Factor in Proactive Ocean Conservation Decisions

摘要

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has taken a third historic action to safeguard the waters and habitats of the North Pacific and Alaska region by adopting a first-ever ecosystem management plan for the Aleutian Islands. The previous two decisions made in June by the Council, which is charged with managing Alaska's federal fisheries, included closing a huge swath of essential fish habitat in the northern Bering Sea to bottom trawling, and beginning a process to close all federal waters in the Arctic Ocean to commercial fishing, until the impacts of climate change can be fully assessed.