Vast Ban on Bottom Trawling Is Approved
From Times Wire Reports
A federal fishing council moved to ban bottom trawling on more than 370,000 square miles off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands to protect coral beds and other sensitive fish habitat.
The vote of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council covers more than half the fishable water around the Aleutians and pockets in the Gulf of Alaska.
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