Our Oceans are Under Attack

THE trophy fish that anglers dream of landing are crucial for saving fish populations. It means fishery managers should rethink the common policy of chasing the big fish and letting the tiddlers go.

That's according to Charles Birkeland at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and Paul Dayton at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who have reviewed the effects of fishing on populations. Until recently it was thought that all eggs and larvae have the same odds of survival, regardless of their parents' size. Now studies show that the biggest fish are the most valuable for maintaining the population.

For a start, a female's fecundity often increases dramatically with size. A 60-centimetre red snapper, for example, produces more than 200 times as many eggs as females that are two-thirds her size.

 

The smaller fish are tastier in my opinion. Couple lbs is a good pan size.
When I hunt deer, I take the "trash" deer and let the big racks go by. Let them breed. Smaller deer taste as good and easier to pack out the meat. I don't take or mount trophys.

 

European Leaders Agree on Targets to Fight Climate Change | New York Times

 

Scottish otters dying early because of poisoned seas – ‘Our otters are not living long enough to significantly expand the population further’ | Desdemona Despair

 

Tying pollution, a very real problem, to the notion human produced CO2 supposedly causing catastrophic climate change, is a dirty trick.
The issues are separate and have different evidence, and need to be considered separately.
Evidence for pollution, which is real, doesn't lend validity to the myth of human induced climate change.

 

Climate Change Report Slams Insurers for ‘Profound Lack of Preparedness’ | Insurance Journal

 

Distribution of temperature anomalies in Australia and the western tropical Pacific, 1881-2013 | Desdemona Despair

 

...couple of interesting postings from another boating forum...

 

....and the second one...

 

Below are 51 facts on Pollution

Fact 1: Pollution is one of the biggest killers, affecting more than 100 million worldwide.
Fact 2: More than 1 billion people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water.
Fact 3: 5000 people die every day as a result of drinking unclean water.
Fact 4: The garbage dumped in the ocean every year is roughly around 14 billion pounds. Plastic is the major constituent.
Fact 5: Pollution kills more than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals every year.
Fact 6: People who live in high-density air pollution area, have 20% higher risk of dying from lung cancer, than people living in less polluted areas.
Fact 7: Approximately 46% of the lakes in America are extremely polluted and hence risky for swimming, fishing and aquatic life.
Fact 8: In the great “Smog Disaster“, that happened in London int he year 1952, approximately four thousand people died in a few days due to the high concentrations of pollution.
Fact 9: United States produces 30% of the world’s waste and uses 25 % of the worlds natural resources
Fact 10: The Mississippi River dumps 1.5 million metric tonnes of nitrogen pollution in the Gulf of Mexico every year.
Fact 11: Every year around one trillion gallons of untreated sewage and industrial waste is dumped in the U.S water.
Fact 12: Children contribute to only 10% of the world’s pollution but are prone to 40% of global disease.
Fact 13: More than 3 million kids under the age of 5 years die every year due to environmental factors like pollution.
Fact 14: Composting and recycling alone have prevented 85 million tons of waste to be dumped in 2010.
Fact 15: China is the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide. United States is number 2.
Fact 16: Almost 80% of urban waste in India is dumped in the river Ganges.
Fact 17: Noise pollution is the most neglected type of pollution.
Fact 18: The amount of money invested in nuclear test could be used to finance 8,000 hand pumps, giving villages across third world access to clean water.
Fact 19: Acidification of the ocean is the worst type of pollution. Oceans are becoming more acidic rue to green house emissions from fossil fuel.
Fact 20: Livestock waste majorly contributes to soil pollution. During monsoon, water runs over the fields carrying dangerous bacteria from the livestock into the streams.
Fact 21: More than 100 pesticides in any medium- air, water or soil can cause birth defects, gene mutation and cancer.
Fact 22: There are more around 73 various kinds of pesticides in the groundwater, which is used as drinking water.
Fact 23: There are more than 500 million cars in the world and by 2030 the number will rise to 1 billion. This means pollution level will be more than double.
Fact 24: Major oil spills like those in the Gulf of Mexico, is the the worst type of pollution due to consistent oil spills in the water body which spreads everywhere else.
Fact 25: House owners use chemicals that are 10 times more toxic per acre, than the amount used by the farmers.
Fact 26: Around 1000 children die in India every year due to diseases caused from the polluted water.
Fact 27: In India, the Ganges water is gradually becoming septic, especially due to dumping of half burnt dead bodies and enshrouded babies.
Fact 28: 88% of the children in Guiyu, China suffer from various respiratory diseases as the area they live in is a huge e-waste site.
Fact 29: Antarctica is the cleanest place on Earth protected by anti-pollution laws.
Fact 30: Scientific research has proven that carbon dioxide emissions are lowering the pH of the ocean and are acidifying them even more.
Fact 31: A single car generates half a ton of CO2 and a NASA space shuttle releases 28 tons of C02.
Fact 32: Americans buy more than 29 million bottles of water every year. Only 13% of these bottles are recycled every year.
Fact 33: Tsunami in Japan during the year 2011, has created a debris of 70 miles, which consists of cars, plastic, dead bodies and radioactive waste.
Fact 34: Cadmium is a dangerous pollutant that kills foetus’ sex organ cells. It is wide spread in many things that we eat and drink.
Fact 35: It takes only 5 days for a jet stream in Chine to carry the air pollution to the United States.
Fact 36: Pollution in China can change the weather in United States.
Fact 37: World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 6400 people die every year in Mexico due to air pollution.
Fact 38: A single person in United States produces 2 kilograms of garbage every day.
Fact 39: The UAE is one of the biggest waste producer and water consumer.
Fact 40: Every 1 million ton of oil that is shipped, approximately 1 ton from gets wasted in the form of spills.
Fact 41: Most of the hazardous pollutants that are discharged in the atmosphere each year are released to surface water, ground water, and land, combined.
Fact 42: Approximately 3 billion people without proper shelter and healthcare cook and heat their homes using open fires and leaky stoves, thus contributing more towards pollution and global warming.
Fact 43: Chronic obstructive respiratory disease (COPD) that develop due to indoor air pollution is responsible for the death of more than 1 million people every year.
Fact 44: The people more susceptible to high ozone levels are children, elderly, people with lung disease, and people who are active outdoors.
Fact 45: A glass that is produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials can reduce related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
Fact 46: If you think that you don’t smoke and you will be spared by lung cancer, just remember that your lungs or heart may be similarly damaged simply from exposure to ozone and particulate matter.
Fact 47: Places which are near to high traffic roads, seaports or railyards are dangerous place to live or work as they contain more concentrated levels of air pollution.
Fact 48: In cities, where there is huge traffic and vehicles run bumper-to-bumper, the pollutants in the air can seep into your car making the air you breathe inside your car up to 10 times more polluted than typical city air.
Fact 49: In 1987, the U.S. released 1.2 million tons of toxic chemicals into our atmosphere, 670,000 tons into our soil, and 250,000 tons into our water. (International Wildlife magazine)
Fact 50: In the US, 41% of all insecticides are used on corn. Eighty per cent of these are used to treat a pest that could be controlled simply by rotating the corn for one year with any other crop.
Fact 51: Public transportation and car pooling can help you to reduce air pollution and save money up to a great extent.
If these statistics are enough to give a wake-up call, then even more needs to be done beyond that. Step ahead and stop pollution yourself, today.

 

Fact 52: Public transportation increase your exposure to communicable diseases and psychopaths.

 

Stop eating meat is your best bet, did you find out who called you a troll?

Prevention and control of communicable diseases, in particular, the disease spreading from animals to people.

 

Did you find out who called you one? Vegetarians scare my plants.

 

You must like me the way you follow

 

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...couple of interesting postings from another boating forum...



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Originally Posted by Opcn

Anoxic events are one of the most fascinating things in nature. Flat out they are more important to the carbon cycle than anything that happens on land. People talk about the Amazon being the lungs of the world, while cutting huge swaths of it down to grow crops in Brazil has no doubt released CO2 the amazon was net carbon neutral before that started happening. While all those trees were busy capturing carbon the fungi were busy releasing it. The carboniferous era is over and tropical forests aren't just going to lay around and wait to be covered over anymore.


Anoxic zones, or oceanic deadzones, are a result of the ability of carbondioxide (CO2) to form carbonic acid(CO(OH)2) an an aqueous environment. The phytoplankton are under extreme evolutionary pressure to be absolutely the best photosynthesizers. Being in salt water gives them tremendous access to all of the elemental building blocks that they could want (save those that there is great competition for). CO2 and O2 both dissolve into the water as a gas, but CO2 goes a step further to carbonic acid so far more CO2 can be dissolved than O2 in any given set of circumstances. The phytoplankton use the CO2 and evolve O2 gas which dissolves into the water until it hits saturation point, and then it starts forming bubbles and fleeing from the ocean at amazing speed. As the O2 is lost carbon builds up in the bodies of the phytoplankton. When nighttime comes around they try to burn the carbon back to CO2 to survive but soon the O2 runs out because the phytoplankton is so thick, and all the O2 they banked during the day escaped into the air and is only available to the plankton on the very surface. With this crunch many plankton die, but they cannot be decomposed easily because oxidizers are in very short supply. These un-decomposed plankton sink to the bottom and in very still water form deposits that will eventually become oil shale. At pretty much every step along the way the concentration of CO2 in the ocean water is lower than the equilibrium with the air would leave it (because remember, they get rid of far more O2 during the day than they make CO2 at night) and CO2 is just pouring into the water in these places.

It's an amazing and elegant carbon pump that takes it from the air and locks it into what will eventually become fossil fuels. "

Thanks brian, for the optimistic post.
I'm a strong believer in the elegant design of our planet's natural cycles and many natural regulating systems.
Thanks for posting this one.

Just as nature controls overpopulation of wild animals by the consequences of overpopulation, maybe we are seeing natural controls at work in human overpopulated areas of the world right now.
Increase in diseases, famine and predators (or wars, for man is chief predator for man), are natural controls and consequence of too large a population for the available resources.

Since the "Naturalists" (athiests) preach evolutionism and the benefits of "survival of the fittest", I'm surprised these same folks are all hot to diminish lifestyles so a larger population of people can be sustained.
Seems they'd be preaching their doctrine of "don't mess with nature" and let nature eradicate the excess people.

I believe the earth's OTHER natural regulatory systems is taking care of minor parts per million stuff, like CO2.
CO2 isn't a pollutant. It is not garbage. It's a natural part of earths life cycles. Plants LOVE it.
Blaming human produced CO2 as THE problem, is just an excuse to try to control other people.
One of the MAIN reasons, wars occur, resisting tyranny.
Maybe THAT is the AGWers intent. Start a fight?
Maybe, just maybe, doomers are actually a natural phenomenon, one of nature's controls, serving nature to instigate predation (wars), and reduce population.
Which would infer their opposition, freedom lovers, are a natural phenomenon also. Takes two to tussle!