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...recognized marine fisheries were overexploited or already depleted, and 44% more were at their limits of exploitation. Nontarget fish are swept up in the process. Dredges and trawls destroy habitats--Earle calls the invaders "bulldozer equivalents"--as they drag the ocean floor...
Another threat comes from man-made fertilizers, which wash off fields into streams and eventually into the ocean. This spurs the harmful overgrowth of algae and the spread of toxic microbes that can kill fish and cause human health problems, such as liver and kidney ills and amnesia. Billions of fish died along the Middle and Southern Atlantic coast in recent years because of suspected pollution from upstream sources. On a tour of the land area around Big Sur, my guide from the California Coastal Commission, Lee Otter (yes), noted as a caution and as a fact that "something always...
...urging citizens to take a two-by-four to complacent politicians. A less picturesque solution is volunteerism--getting the public to clean beaches, lawyers to work pro bono for the environment and so forth. The third solution is knowledge. "Far and away the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance," she says. "But we can do something about that." After recent explorations of the galaxies, she concluded that all we really know is that the earth is unique. "The future is here," she says, "this aquatic planet blessed with an ocean...
...asked to sit for a photograph at the shore near Point Lobos. She hops from rock to rock, settles and stares out. What does she see? What does anybody see who gazes longingly, devotedly on that great wet wilderness? Melville said that people find their souls in the ocean. That may have been his way of paying tribute to our microbial past. Out there does some poor fish imagine its evolutionary future? If people work to preserve the sea, will we also save our souls...
...doubt that Her Deepness is thinking about any of that. You have to love the ocean before you are moved to save it. She stares out at her world where tuna roar, groupers have attitudes and the Vampyroteuthis infernalis stares back with its God's blue eye, and winks...