Cooperating with Antarctica to build the world’s largest marine park

The Antarctic Marine Life Resource Conservation Committee said at the Hobart conference in Australia that the Ross Sea Ocean Park prohibited commercial fishing for 35 years. The Ross Sea is considered one of the most important marine ecosystems in the world. The protection of the Antarctic ocean is imminent. Scientists estimate that the Antarctic Ocean produces three-quarters of the nutrients needed by marine life in other parts of the world. The Ocean Park covers an area 12% larger than the Southern Ocean and has more than 10,000 species, including most of the world's penguins, whales, seabirds, giant squid and Antarctic toothfish. Within the 1.1 million-square-kilometer sea area of ​​the Ross Sea, fishing will be completely banned. 3.22 million square kilometers of sea area is planned as a research area, allowing some krill and sawfish to be caught. Conservation will not reduce the total number of fishing in the Ross Sea, but it will keep fishing activities away from the animal's most important habitat. (http://)