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Obama’s Pacific no-fish zone questioned
A United States fishery scientist says the US President’s vow to dramatically increase a no-fishing zone in the Pacific is nothing more than a gesture. “It will have no conservation benefit on tunas and other highly migratory species. They move about so if they’re not subject to fishing mortality in one area, they may be in another. And we just don’t see this as anything more than really sort of being a gesture more than anything else.” Read more here 19:50