Re “Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says” (front page, Jan. 16), about new, groundbreaking research published on Thursday in the journal Science:
The world’s international waters, or high seas, are a modern-day Wild West, with weak rules and few sheriffs. Staving off ocean collapse requires urgent international action to preserve these waters, which make up two-thirds of the world’s oceans and cover nearly half the planet.
For more information, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/opinion/preserving-the-oceans.html?emc=eta1&_r=0