Cop26: Oceanographer Sylvia Earle calls for industrial fishing ban on high seas

Ending unsustainable commercial exploitation of the Earth's blue heart' is as vital as curbing fossil fuel use, says pioneering biologist

World leaders gathered for Cop26 must ban industrial fishing on the high seas to have a chance of preserving the ocean, the Earth's largest carbon-capturing and oxygen-generating system", the deep-sea explorer and oceanographer Sylvia Earle has said.

Earle, 86, has clocked up more than 7,000 hours underwater and holds several records, including in 1979 for the deepest untethered dive by a woman.