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11-19-2008, 10:01 AM
So much marine life has been captured that 15 of the world’s 17 major ocean fisheries are either depleted or over-exploited, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
Even though the oceans cover 71 percent of the planet, size does not matter when it comes to depleting fishing stocks. "Most of the ocean is biologically a desert. The life is there, but it’s very sparse. Where it’s concentrated happens to be along the continents because that’s where the nutrients run off the land," says Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean, in a PBS documentary on marine fisheries and aquaculture.
http://www.globe-net.com/headline_news/index.cfm?type=1&newsID=3845
Even though the oceans cover 71 percent of the planet, size does not matter when it comes to depleting fishing stocks. "Most of the ocean is biologically a desert. The life is there, but it’s very sparse. Where it’s concentrated happens to be along the continents because that’s where the nutrients run off the land," says Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean, in a PBS documentary on marine fisheries and aquaculture.
http://www.globe-net.com/headline_news/index.cfm?type=1&newsID=3845