Alex Fox for Science | 3 April 2019
No flag can claim the high seas, but many nations exploit them. As a result, life in the two-thirds of the oceans beyond any country’s territorial waters faces many threats that are largely unregulated, including overfishing and the emerging deep-sea mining industry.
Now, nations are negotiating the first-ever high-seas conservation treaty, which the United Nations expects to finalize next year.
Read the full article here: First ever high-seas conservation treaty would protect life in international waters.
