Ocean Sentry
(From ap.google.com) – Come Monday, nearly 180,000 square miles of the Bering Sea will be closed to bottom trawling, bringing the total in the Pacific Ocean to 830,000 square miles. “It basically is taking a net and raking it on the bottom, and anything that sticks up from the bottom gets bulldozed over.
It is similar to forest clear-cutting,” Chris Krenz, Oceana’s arctic project manager, said Friday.
According to Oceana, the Bering Sea has 26 species of marine mammals, including the North Pacific right whale, believed to be the most critically endangered whale in the world.
(By MARY PEMBERTON)
