An international panel of former heads of state, government ministers and prominent business leaders is calling for world leaders to protect the ocean by adopting a sweeping five-year “rescue package.”
The report released Tuesday by the Global Ocean Commission recommends that the United Nations and national governments restrict fishing in international waters, eliminate fishing subsidies, step up the fight against illegal fishing, reduce pollution and establish greater international cooperation on marine issues.
Rashid Sumaila, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver who studies the fishing industry, told National Geographic that when he first suggested closing the high seas to fishing at a meeting in Cape Town a few years ago, “people thought it was crazy.”
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