In 2015, the icebreaker USCGC Healy became the only American vessel to reach the North Pole unaccompanied. Last week, she became the only American ves.
On October 3, 2018, the United States signed the multi-country Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Commercial Fishing on the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The object of the agreement is to apply precautionary conservation and management measures to ensure the sustainable use of fish stocks in waters outside the jurisdictions of the signatory nations. While the agreement has a laudable purpose, it is susceptible to being undermined by non-parties, and should have taken the form of a treaty, not an executive agreement.
U.S. Arctic policy is moribund and needs a comprehensive revival. The USGS estimates that the Arctic might hold up to 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of the world’s undiscovered natural gas reserves. To protect U.S. rights, mapping is essential and the U.S. icebreaker fleet needs to be replaced with a modern flotilla of icebreakers.
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