MPA Perspective: United States Proposes MPA in Antarctica’s Ross Sea Region

MPA Perspective: United States Proposes MPA in Antarctica’s Ross Sea Region

By Evan T. Bloom

As one of the nations with vital and active interests in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic, the United States is an active member of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources (CCAMLR), the international body responsible for managing marine living resources in the waters around Antarctica. On 7 September 2012, to advance marine conservation, protection, and scientific research in one of the last great ocean wilderness areas on the planet, the United States submitted a proposal to CCAMLR to establish a marine protected area in Antarctica's Ross Sea Region.