Word: carhivora
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...much plant material as an acre of land. Nearly all sea-growing plants are microscopic phytoplankton (mainly diatoms and dinoflagellates) that form the broad base of a "food pyramid." They are eaten by slightly bigger zooplahkton, and these small grazers are processed in the stomachs of bigger and bigger carhivora. The food in the original plants diminishes by nine-tenths at each eating. So when a human fisherman catches a fine codfish, each pound of its flesh represents about 100,000 lbs. of plants that grew in the sea. This process is wasteful, thinks Dr. Weiss. Man would do better...
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