Scientists map ‘highways of the sea’

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(Or Falwell/Robertson's termination of life on Earth.)

SEATTLE - Using high-tech satellite tagging, marine scientists have begun to map out key thoroughfares and gathering places in the open ocean for fish, turtles, seals, whales, albatrosses and other far-ranging ocean travelers. Armed with that information, some researchers are calling for reserves to protect key intersections in these "highways of the sea."

They provided initial glimpses of their plans Thursday and Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Someday, the open-ocean expressways may become as familiar as the Eastern Australian Current that surfer-dude sea turtles rode in the animated film "Finding Nemo."

"We don't necessarily have names for all of these features yet," said Elliott Norse, president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Redmond, Wash. But he could imagine a time when scientists would note the reappearance of, say, the "East Kuroshio Gyre Marine Reserve."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4253708/

[NNadir]

1. The problem here is that this information will be used to over-fish

the "highways."

These times are more and more environmentally desperate, largely because the world is vastly overpopulated. In the age of Bush, economics (even wholly unsustainable economics) trumps environmental considerations at all times.