Mobile marine reserves

Poststructural Pub
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Just read this article:
‘Mobile marine reserves’ needed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17070993

“Less than 1% of the ocean is protected at this point, and these marine parks tend to be built around things that sit still like coral reefs and seamounts,” explained Prof Larry Crowder from Stanford University.

"But tracking studies show that many, many organisms - fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds and sharks - respond to oceanographic features that don’t have a fixed point.

“These features are fronts and eddies that may move seasonally, from summer to winter, and from year to year based on oceanographic climate changes like El Nino or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.”

The challenge now, argue Crowder and other marine scientists, is to try to build a system of marine reserves that are as dynamic as the creatures they trying to protect.

I like this idea of using sophisticated tags on sea creatures, which ultimately let them determine by their movements where a mobile marine reserve is at any point in time. Power to the non-humans! The oceans need it.

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Whew! I thought it meant Semper Fi standbys waiting by their cellphones.

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I thought the thread title made sense. Of course there are marine reserves and of course they are mobile.

Hans, I can’t imagine how much this worries you. If it was possible, I would like us to leave the oceans the @#$% alone for 100 years so that they could begin to heal themselves. Short of getting rid of 4 1/2 billion of us anytime soon, I don’t think that’s going to happen.

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Unfortunately I doubt a hundred years will have any impact on the marine garbage patches.

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nor on the microplastic pollution caused by tiny bits of synthetic fibres being broken off from clothing when it gets washed.

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut