Last summer, at the United Nations World Oceanʻs Conference, French Polynesia established the world’s largest contiguous marine protected area, reinforcing its 2022 ban on seabed mining. “The deep sea is not for sale,” France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, said at the time. A year later, that mi...
Source: [Grist](https://grist.org/oceans/american-deep-sea-minerals-application-pacific-island-fisheries/)