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Globe and Mail: Two hundred miles above Canada's most northern shore lies a body of international water that has been covered in ice for more than 800,000 years -- a sea the size of the Mediterranean kept beyond reach of commercial fishing interests by a vast frozen dome of white.
But the ice shield is melting and no agreements are in place to prevent boats from China, Japan and other fishing nations from entering the High Arctic to reap an undersea bounty that could become accessible in just a few years.
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Coastal nations urged to preserve Arctic waters
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation