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Census of marine life shows
diversity but also declines
(AP) - A masnivc census of
all the fish and other marine life
in the world's oceans has
reached the halfway point with
new evidence of the rich diver
sity under the sea along with
warnings about the alarming
decline of many species.
The 10-ycar international
project that began in 2000 has
already tracked the migration of
tuna from Japan to California
and back, along with the move
ment of endangered British
Columbia salmon with implanted
computer chips.
"We're sending animals out
with the equivalent of cell
phones and they're telling us
where they are," said Ron
O'Dor, senior scientist for the
Census of Marine Life.
"What those animals are
sending back is a picture that
shows what seems like a blue
uniform ocean to us on the sur
face is really very complicated,"
O'Dor said.
The data from the tracking
program could help researchers
and fishery managers conserve
stocks of many species of large
fish that have declined by about
90 percent over the last 50
years, O'Dor said.
"This gives us an idea about
where fish go, the rate at which
they migrate, and tells us where
these animals live and where they
die so we can understand quan
titatively what happens to fish
stocks so we can manage them
better," he said.
Dave Huharty, a marine
policy analyst at the University
of Washington, said the data
likely will change international
treaties on fishing rights as re
searchers find out how fish are
distributed in the ocean.
"It's going to be easier to de
tect international violations, and
I think that's going to change a
lot of what we do over the next
10 to 20 years," Huharty said.
Jane I.ubchenco, an Oregon
State University marine biologist
and president of the Interna
tional Council for Science, said
the census will help raise aware
ness about the urgent need for
international cooperation to pre
serve marine life.
"I think there's definitely in
creasing recognition that we can
no longer think about the ocean
as infinitely vast, infinitely boun
tiful and infinitely resilient,"
I.ubchenco said. "There are
problems everywhere."
But she said she was encour
aged by the amount of biologi
cal diversity the census has
found in the first five years.
"The expectation was there
would be new discoveries,"
I.ubchenco said. "What's blown
us away is how much there is
out there that we didn't know
about before. It's big stuff, it's
little tiny stuff that's been com
ing in from this project. It's been
pretty sobering."
Other highlights at the mid
way point of the census include
the discovery of tiny carnivo
rous sponges found in the
Southern Ocean abyss, an un
derwater dead zone at the epi
center of the 2004 Indonesian
tsunami and the first life re
corded at smoking seafloor
vents south of the equator in
the Atlantic.
The census also is studying
polar regions and the deepest
reaches of the oceans. Scientists
recently used the German ice
breaker Polarstern to tow an
underwater sled over the South
ern Ocean floor near Antarctica
to photograph life at the bottom.
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