11-09-2017, 03:23 AM
Fish and coral and other sea life are integrated systems functioning in unison. If you remove one, coral for instance, or ulua, everything else is affected. If one fish population is reduced beyond its ability to survive, another species might move into the territory and affect all of the remaining sea life.
The radiation from Fukushima may not have had an affect on American coasts and waters, but the earthquake and tsunami did send invasive species from Japan across the ocean to our shores, on floating debris washed into the ocean from the disaster. Scientists are now starting to determine the affects to our coasts. A healthy ecosystem that has not been fished to a point of depletion may be our best defense.
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
The radiation from Fukushima may not have had an affect on American coasts and waters, but the earthquake and tsunami did send invasive species from Japan across the ocean to our shores, on floating debris washed into the ocean from the disaster. Scientists are now starting to determine the affects to our coasts. A healthy ecosystem that has not been fished to a point of depletion may be our best defense.
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
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