Shallow International Law Can't Protect The Deep Sea

These days the UN General Assembly is discussing the adoption of a declaration calling for an immediate moratorium on deep-sea bottom trawl fishing on the high seas, at least until legally-binding regimes for the effective conservation and management of fisheries and the protection of biodiversity on the high seas can be developed, implemented and enforced. The measure has been proposed by Australia and a number of Pacific Countries, and it is crucially endorsed not only the US, but also the European Community, whose oversized and over-subsidized fleet fishes heavily off the six continents (Antarctica included)...