10 March 2023
Morning Shot: How much will the UN High Seas Treaty help marine creatures?
Did you know that most of our international waters are not protected (for conservation)? Well to be exact - only 1.2 per cent of it is! But all that’s going to change following the recently signed UN High Seas Treaty - which aims to push that to 30 per cent by 2030. But how will all of that work?
Professor Rashid Sumaila, who’s Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at The University of British Colombia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries shares his perspective.

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