Ocean Species Disappearing...

The Global ocean is no longer a blue frontier with vast populations of
uncaught fish, according to marine biologists Dr Ransom Myers of
Dalhousie University in Halifax and Dr Boris Worm of the Institue for Marine
Science in Kiel , Germany.

They say the ocean spieces, one by one, are being pushed to extinction,
a phenomenon driven by advances in satellite and sonar technology,
which ocean- going fishing fleets use to locate fish.

As reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto, " every single species of
large wild fish has been caught so systematiclly over the past 50 years that 90 per cent of each type have disappeared.

" Dr. Myers believes that the loss of these fish,
as well as thoses prized most for eating, such as tuna, cod, halibut,
marlin, and swordfish, will profoundly effect the ecosystem of the global
ocean.

" Dr Worm adds: "We are tampering with the life-support system of the planet and that's not a good thing to do. "