More seriously, the oceans are in trouble on many fronts. The sea is
apparently becoming more acidic from the amount of CO2 being absorbed, corals
are disappearing, too much fish being used for the stocks available and there
is an increasing amount of them, threatening the lower-lying lands around the
world. Whatever the reason for the increased CO2, it's causing major damage.
Chris
On 8 Oct 2010, at 17:22, Ken Norton wrote:
>>
>> The largest marine predator on the planet right now is the cow. More than
>> half the fish taken from the sea is rendered into fish meal and fed to
>> domestic livestock. Puffins are starving in the North sea to feed sand eels
>> to chickens in Denmark. Sheep and pigs have replaced the shark and the sea
>> lion as the dominant predators in the ocean and domestic house cats are
>> eating more fish than all the world’s seals combined. We are extracting some
>> fifty to sixty fish from the sea to raise one farm raised salmon. This is
>> ecological insanity. -- Paul Watson
>>
>
> Jan, sometimes your footers are irritating, sometimes they are humourous,
> sometimes they are even correct. This one is both entertaining and irksome.
> He's referring to a lot of bycatch in this case. However, biomass is
> biomass. Every ton of biomass removed from the ocean does have side-effects.
> Mr. Watson is one of my heros, though.
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