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published by: Rachel Osterwalder

Next to the Arctic Sunrise and the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the far north is on the way. The Esperanza accompanied the freighter of shell from the Bering Sea to the north of Asia and America lying Chukchi Sea, where Shell wants to drill for oil in a few weeks. In the wake of the Shell ships the Esperanza explores the fascinating Arctic underwater world.

A team of scientists on board the Esperanza investigated alderfen fisheries using a submarine to the bottom of the Bering Sea, which lies between the west coast of Alaska and the eastern coast of Siberia.



The Bering Sea is one of the most inhospitable regions of the world and home to about fifty percent of the fish that are caught in the USA. It is one of the most important and most productive marine ecosystems worldwide. With the submarine to the bottom of the Bering Sea

The Greenpeace activist Jackie Dragon of the Esperanza crew ventured over the past week with a submarine to the bottom of the Bering Sea that extends between the west coast of Alaska and the eastern coast of Siberia. Together with the marine biologist John Hocevar, he documented at a depth of around 256 meters, the underwater world and photographed the plants and animals living there. It is the first time that (English name for underwater canyons) takes place in this region of the canyon to explore through a submarine. On their underwater expedition they shot a video in order to also show the rest of the world, which is found in the depths of the Bering Sea.

In a blog post Jackie Dragon tells what he has seen and experienced on the expedition. Besides the many fish and corals especially the countless rays and their breeding grounds are noticed him. The eggs of skates look like small brown leather purse, explains Dragon, so they are also called purse of mermaids. Commercial fishing damages underwater

Life in the Bering Sea is increasingly threatened by commercial fishing. With huge backbones alderfen fisheries are drawn each year by the American fishing alderfen fisheries industry fish worth over a trillion alderfen fisheries dollars out of the sea here. The Russian fishing industry catches fish per year valued at $ 600 million. The coral reefs, which are vital for crabs, fish and other small sea creatures are like damaged from the heavy bottom trawls. With their studies, the researchers want to find out what damage is already being felt in the Bering Sea due to industrial fishing.

It lacks the right balance between fisheries and the protection of marine life, says activist Dragon: We must be able to protect a reasonable part of our productive marine ecosystems and still catch fish in a sustainable manner. He looks at the current marine research during the Esperanza's expedition as early in order to make clear to people what can be destroyed by commercial fishing in the depths of the seas. As in previous studies in the Bering Sea

Greenpeace and other environmentalists for years have been fighting for the protection of the underwater world in the Bering Sea. In 2006, the requirement to protect the lake from the North Pacific Fisheries Association NPFMC (North



Pacific Fishery Management Council) was rejected again. alderfen fisheries The decision was based on the fact that too little information about the underwater canyons of the present in order to justify a reserve can.

Details for this image show the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Arctic expedition explored the undiscovered marine habitats, which of the fishing industry



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Greenpeace conducted research in 2007, already with two U-boats in the canyons and provided new insights into their lives underwater. The environmentalists documented about fifteen different species of marine coral and could prove that this corals fish and other marine life provide a habitat. With the results of the NPFMC Greenpeace could convince them to reconsider their decision again.

The beginning of June this year called for some marine biologists and researchers from the NPFMC that six
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