Anchorage (High North News): "We do not want to be left onshore while Russia and other countries fish in Arctic waters,” said Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang. While Russia still honours international fishing agreements, they benefit from commercial harvest of pollock north of the Bering Strait, while Alaska is still banned from the same thing.
Currently, there is a ban on commercial fishing in the Arctic, after nine nations and the European Union signed the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement – officially known as the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean – in 2018.