US EditionBan High-Seas Fishing, Mining 'Forever': Experts
- On June 5, 2025, experts urged for a lifelong prohibition on extractive activities such as seabed mining and commercial fishing beyond national waters, ahead of the UN Ocean Conference scheduled from June 9 to 13 in Nice, France.
- The call followed the 2023 UN High Seas Treaty agreement, which remains halfway to ratification amid concerns over irreversible ocean damage from extractive activities.
- The high seas cover 43% of Earth's surface and act as the planet's largest carbon sink, but less than 1% are protected, while exploitation includes deeper fishing and seabed mining threatening biodiversity and climate stability.
- Professor Callum Roberts emphasized that marine life beyond national waters plays a crucial role in the ocean's capacity to capture carbon, and preserving this ecosystem is essential to prevent further harm to the planet’s climate.
- Permanent protection of the high seas would help restore biodiversity, support food security, and advance climate goals, but implementation of the treaty and stronger governance require urgent global action.
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The French-Canadian biologist draws a catastrophic panorama of the marine populations, who are massively victims of overfishing, which the states, particularly France, continue to subsidize.
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Ban high-seas fishing_ mining 'forever': Experts
PARIS: Governments should ban all mining and fishing in the high seas 'forever' to protect ocean biodiversity, climate stability -- and humanity, climate and ocean experts said Wednesday. In a commentary in the journal Nature, published ahead of a UN oceans summit in France, researchers and conservationists called on governments to act more decisively to protect marine habitats outside national jurisdiction. They warned that exploitation of the …
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