Lawsuit Planned to Stop Bottom-Trawling Study in the Northern Bering Sea
Three tribal governments and an environmental organization on Thursday served notice to federal agencies that they are planning a lawsuit to block a fishing experiment along the seafloor in the northern Bering Sea.
The practice of bottom trawling - sweeping a net to catch fish on or near the seabed - is currently prohibited in the Northern Bering Sea, which is abbreviated in legal documents as NBS. But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service is planning to deploy some commercial trawling gear in...
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