Uh huh.
<http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/31/ocean-acidification-and-corals/>
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/8/2010 1:09 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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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