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Global warming spurs commercial fishing moratorium in U.S. Arctic

Ben Boyok, a crewman aboard the Seattle-based Ocean Explorer, dumps a net of Arctic Cod into a sorting table last August as the vessel -- chartered by NOAA Fisheries -- conducted a survey of Arctic Fishery Resources in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska.

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