The last intact sea

This year’s CCAMLR meeting opens in Hobart, Tasmania on Oct. 17. The Russians are not even major players in the Ross Sea fishery, and there is at least a chance that this time they may do the right thing.
LONDON, ENGLAND—Hurray for sustainability. Commercial fishing for the Antarctic toothfish is permitted in the Ross Sea, provided that the biomass of the spawning stock (total weight of all the fertile adult fish) is still at least half of its previous level 35 years later. And at no time in that 3...

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