Russia calls New Zealand's efforts to create Ross Sea MPA "territorial games."
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Stuff] By Marshall Field - August 26, 2014 -
Russia has accused New Zealand of trying to create a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea as a cover for asserting territorial claims.
While it says it favours MPAs, it has mocked the one New Zealand, Australia and the United States tried creating last year in the high-profile "Last Ocean" campaign.
It would have covered over 2.3 million square kilometres of the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica, but a special meeting of the 25 members of the Commission for the Conservation on Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) failed to reach consensus.
Russia, China, Japan and Ukraine blocked it...
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