Alaska – National Marine Fisheries Service rejects Center for Biological Diversity petition to list cold-water corals

A federal agency has rejected a petition seeking to list 44 cold water corals off Alaska as threatened or endangered. An environmental group says the corals are threatened by commercial fishing, ocean warming, acidification and oil spills. Read more here

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