OPINION: Industrial Trawling in a Climate-Impacted Arctic Undermines Resilience, Adds Needless Risk
The cold, productive waters of the northern Bering Sea are the traditional and contemporary homelands, and lifeblood of, coastal Yup’ik, St. Lawrence Yupik, Cup’ik and Inupiaq Peoples who have lived in reciprocal relationship with, and relied on, the abundance of marine life for thousands of years.
This is a place unlike any other in the world where huge migrations of whales, seals, and walruses occur every spring taking advantage of the Arctic’s burst of productivity following the retreat of winter sea ice. Birds arrive from across the ...
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