‘End high seas fishing for climate’s sake’ | Climate News Network
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wo scientists say fish from the high seas are too valuable to be eaten, because they lessen climate change through the carbon they consume.
LONDON, 8 June – Marine biologists have delivered the most radical proposal yet to protect biodiversity and sequester carbon: stop all fishing, they say, on the high seas.
The high seas are the stretches of ocean that nobody owns and nobody claims: they are beyond the 200-mile economic zones patrolled and sometimes disputed by national governments. They are also what climate scientists call a carbon sink, a natural source of carbon removal.