The ol fishing line that you shoulda been here yesterday may be about to change: Warming Arctic could lead to a lucrative fishery, depending on what policymakers do.
By Daniel Grossman | Thursday, February 25, 2021
Will fishing boats currently having little interest in now-fishless Arctic ‘high-seas’ find valuable fish there as its waters warm? How might the international community anticipate and respond?
Commercial fishing doesn’t bother much with the Arctic Ocean. Ice covers a third of it even in the summer. It’s remote and has few lucrative fish. Horrendous storms and icebergs lurk. But the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average. The ocean’s cap of sea ice, just 40 years ago as big as Australia, is shrinking fast.