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https://earth.stanford.edu/news/willful-misinterpretation-legal-treaty-threatens-antarctic-species[font face=Serif][font size=5]Antarctic species threatened by willful misinterpretation of legal treaty[/font]
[font size=4]Some countries argue that setting up marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean would interfere with their right to rational use of natural resources.[/font]
By Ker Than
October 21, 2015
[font size=3]Countries are loosely interpreting the legal meaning of rational use of natural resources to escalate fishing efforts in Antarctic waters and hinder efforts to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, scientists and legal scholars say.
The findings, published online in the journal Marine Policy, come as 24 countries plus the European Union convene in Hobart, Australia, this week for the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to set fisheries management rules in the Southern Ocean.
Also on the meeting agenda are plans for extensive marine protected areas (MPAs), including the Ross Sea, Antarctica, a region scientists have deemed Earths Last Ocean because it is perhaps the healthiest large intact marine ecosystem left on the planet.
Largely protected by an icy shield and sheer remoteness, the southernmost waters around Antarctica are the least affected by people. They also contain some of our last pockets of untapped fish stocks, said co-author Cassandra Brooks, a PhD candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford Universitys School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
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[font size=4]Some countries argue that setting up marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean would interfere with their right to rational use of natural resources.[/font]
By Ker Than
October 21, 2015
[font size=3]Countries are loosely interpreting the legal meaning of rational use of natural resources to escalate fishing efforts in Antarctic waters and hinder efforts to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, scientists and legal scholars say.
The findings, published online in the journal Marine Policy, come as 24 countries plus the European Union convene in Hobart, Australia, this week for the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to set fisheries management rules in the Southern Ocean.
Also on the meeting agenda are plans for extensive marine protected areas (MPAs), including the Ross Sea, Antarctica, a region scientists have deemed Earths Last Ocean because it is perhaps the healthiest large intact marine ecosystem left on the planet.
Largely protected by an icy shield and sheer remoteness, the southernmost waters around Antarctica are the least affected by people. They also contain some of our last pockets of untapped fish stocks, said co-author Cassandra Brooks, a PhD candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford Universitys School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
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Antarctic species threatened by willful misinterpretation of legal treaty (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Oct 2015
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(1,884 posts)1. That area is pretty much still pristine, which means we must develop it 'cause we need the food
it will provide, because we already fished out the rest of the oceans.
Learn from our past mistakes? Oh Hell no, not until we developed the last pristine ocean left first. Our food comes first.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)2. If you want countries to follow treaties then write exactly what you mean
Not what you think countries will think. This is 100 percent the fault of the author of the treaty and signatories. No pity for being dumb.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. kick, kick, kick.....