IT IS time to save the oceans. While the call has been heard many times before, this time it comes from a US government panel. If panel members get their way, the US will completely overhaul the way it manages its 8 million square kilometres of water, in a move that could also influence international policy.
Many groups have warned that ocean ecosystems are on the brink of collapse, including the independent Pew Oceans Commission in June 2003. But the first government-sponsored investigation into America’s waters for 30 years, which the US Commission on Ocean Policy will submit to President…
