One is a proposal now before the United Nations that would end unregulated bottom trawling on the high seas...

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At the end of the winter, the frozen seas cover 15.7m square kilometres (6.1m square miles), an area more than one and a half times that of the United States.

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The south-west monsoon begins towards the end of May until about August, making the seas too rough for pirates.

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