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4 Potential Influences on Future Needs for Icebreakers
4 Potential Influences on Future Needs for Icebreakers
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that some Arctic fishing fleets have already begun to follow the fish stocks that migrate northward as the ice edge retreats. For indigenous populations in the Arctic, including the Inupiaq and Yupik Eskimo of Alaska and the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, sea ice retreat disrupts and significantly restricts their subsistence hunting and food-sharing life styles as many key species become less accessible due to northward migrations, or in the worst-case scenario become extinct (ACIA, 2005)
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The Antarctic Research Vessel Oversight Committee (ARVOC) serves in an advisory capacity to the National Science Foundation and for the past 3 years ARVOC has been engaged in an assessment and planning effort directed towards making recommendations to the NSF regarding future vessels and the possible construction of a new polar research icebreaker to replace the NATHANIEL B
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The design is based on science mission requirements developed by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System community. While the AURORA BOREALIS is still in the planning stages, it is to be a dedicated European research icebreaker with a deep drilling capability.
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