Driftnet Vote

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Linda Fasulo reports on the upcoming United Nations vote on driftnet fishing. A US-sponsored resolution would ban driftnets more than one-and-one-half miles long by next June. Japan is sponsoring a competing measure that would allow driftnetting to continue while their impact is studied further.

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