I think what Professor Huebert is leaving out, though, is the reason why the moratorium is declared is there is no evidence either way to support the idea of fish stocks in the high Arctic basin. Everything else is scripted according to international law. If there are pressure points I don't anticipate that they're going to emerge in the Arctic. These sorts of battles are going to be picked out in areas where there are proven and very well-established fish stocks. Again, we're operating in hypothetical situations that are several decades out. The moratorium is in recognition that we simply have no evidence either way about fish stocks. Of course, we're going to keep monitoring it but I don't think that's a primary fixation, short to medium term.
On December 9th, 2014. See this statement in context.