WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- Ocean-planning policies are urgently needed to prevent public waters from being damaged by overcrowding, U.S. activists said.
"The oceans are kind of the last frontier for use and development," said Amanda Leland, ocean policy director at the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group. "Even in the 1970s we thought that the oceans were limitless resources of fish. We know today now that fisheries are collapsing all around the world."