BERING SEA OVERSTRESSED, GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 17, 1997 | Copyright information

The Bering Sea, an immensely diverse and hugely productive ecosystem, is showing signs of stress if not outright sickness from natural and man-made causes, according to a new report from the Interior Department.

The draft report argues for a concerted effort to make the North Pacific a national cause, find and fill research gaps and impose holistic instead of piecemeal resource management.

The Bering is too valuable as a source of life and income to allow its degradation, said Deborah Williams, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's special assistant for Alaska.

Williams ...

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