Ocean around Aleutian Islands Protected from Bottom Trawling - Oceana USA

Victory | February 1, 2005

Ocean around Aleutian Islands Protected from Bottom Trawling

In an historic victory for protecting our oceans, and the largest such action taken anywhere in the world, U.S. authorities closed to destructive commercial fishing nearly one million square kilometers of north Pacific Ocean surrounding the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, an area equal to Texas and California combined.