| We're Killing the Oceans! |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 at 12:38 AM
A few weeks ago, the Boston Pheonix featured an article about unsustainable fishing practices and an interview with New England native and National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry. It's an interesting read: We're Killing the Oceans. "You take a net, and you scrape it along the bottom to catch shrimp. In the process, everything else — all the little stuff that lives on the bottom, the sponges and the coral and all the habitat for baby animals — you wipe all that out. To catch one pound of shrimp, we might kill 12 pounds of other animals that get thrown back into the sea [dead] as by-catch. http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/93157-Were-killing-the-oceans/ |
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