Into the Deep: First Glimpse of Bering Sea Canyons Heats Up Fisheries Battle

摘要

Marine biologists this summer peered for the first time into the depths of two massive canyons below Alaska's Bering Seacanyons that may be key to sustaining the world's largest food fishery. Their firsthand glimpse of life in Zhemchug and Pribilof canyons may set conservationists and the Alaskan fisheries industry on a collision course, with conservationists arguing that the canyons need protection from fishing, and fisheries managers countering that the canyons' ecosystems are not necessarily unique and are not heavily fished.