Canada to stay in forefront of High Arctic fish research, official says
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Canada’s chief negotiator for the newly signed international moratorium on fishing in the High Arctic says the country will help lead research in the area.
“I think we have expressed a lot of leadership up to now and I don’t see that changing,” Nadia Bouffard said from Illulissat, Greenland, where the groundbreaking deal was being signed Wednesday.
The deal brings Canada together with the other four nations with Arctic coastlines as well as China, Iceland, Japan, South Korea and the 28 members of the European Union. Inuit from three countries were also involved in the treaty.
No commercial fishing takes place in the area, about the size of the Mediterranean Sea and defined as 200 nautical miles from any coastline. But large parts of that once-frozen ocean are now open in the summer and fishers have expressed interest in its potential.
