Deep Ocean Bottom Trawling to Continue

The United Nations has once again proven why it is really nothing more than an ineffective "nice idea", with no practical enforcement power or influence. In a system set-up to fail, where any one nation on the committee can halt progress on regulation, Iceland, Russia, China and South Korea, resisted a proposed ban on deep sea ocean trawling that had the backing of President Bush (yes that president Bush) and U.S. allies, Britain, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. The measure before the committee would have regulated bottom trawling, a fishing method that catches orange roughy, blue ling and other bottom fish while smashing coral reefs and creating clouds of sediment that smother sea life.

Nations are left to regulate themselves, and we all know how well that works.
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