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...Ocean Boom Boxes: A project may deafen some whales...
Worldwide, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 13 of 17 major ocean fisheries are in trouble. The annual marine-fish catch, having peaked at 86 million metric tons in 1989, dipped to 82.5 million tons by 1992. That's why representatives of 100 nations are now assembled at U.N. headquarters in New York City in the second of a series of meetings. The delegates are trying for the first time to put international controls on fishing for commercially valuable species...
...bluefin tuna, have jumped, but in other cases long-distance fleets have traveled to alternative fishing areas, often in the southern hemisphere. In addition, fish suppliers are selling more of species not popular in the past, including dogfish and whiting. Most important, seafood manufacturers are making up for the ocean-fish shortage through aquiculture, the use of fish farms. Large populations of everything from sole to scallops are raised in big tanks or cages near the shore...
...actually occurring. At regular intervals over a period of years, scientists will fire acoustic "shots" across the water and measure the time it takes them to span great stretches of the Pacific. Since sound moves faster in warm water than in cold, researchers will get an indirect indication of ocean temperature. The experiment will begin next month --if the government grants an exemption to a law protecting marine mammals from harassment...
...times. People are happy to talk about their homes, but tourists can quickly look dumb--for example, when they ask if the islands are anchored down of if they're floating freely. (A student from the Virgin Islands tells of a time when clouds were obscuring the ocean, so that part of it looked dark and part looked light. "Some tourists," he says, "asked me if that was the line between the Caribbean and the Atlantic...