Freezing the Bering Sea’s Footprint - Oceana

Victory | October 2, 2009

Freezing the Bering Sea’s Footprint

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it will adopt Oceana’s “freeze-the-footprint” approach by closing nearly 180,000 square miles of the Bering Sea to destructive bottom trawling to protect important seafloor habitats and marine life.