There are other ways to protect that. In the regulatory framework we live with, one of the big issues there is PCBs and where the PCBs are coming from, why they are arriving, and how they are arriving there in the Arctic. You need the regulatory framework so that they're not being openly put into the ecosystem and then picked up in the atmospheric movements and dropped there. You need that larger regulatory framework.
On the issue about ecosystems, the fish hook has been around for 40,000 years. We've been using it to catch fish for 40,000 years. It predates the plough. We modify any system we're fishing in. They're not pristine ecosystems. They're novel ecosystems. We're modifying every ecosystem on this planet by being here. We have to be cognizant of what we're doing on land and on the water, but to think that what we're doing on the land is not impacting the water is a huge mistake. If you want to take the food production and limit that food production in the ocean. then we have to produce it on land. Most of our land production is impacting our oceans way more than fishing is. That's the issue.
The dead zones that are being created by agricultural runoff are huge. That is limiting our food production on this planet in the ocean. If you want to restrict what we're catching on the ocean, then you have to increase it on land. Then we're going to pollute our ocean more and there will be more dead zones. You have to be cognizant of the larger picture in what you do.