“Sudden Ocean dead:
Are we at the tipping point for the oceans
to still sustain life?”
~ Cynthia G. Creel
5-29-2013
My Story:
It was a hot summer’s day and the kids were melting. That was the day I decided to buy an above ground pool. It was round, blue with an inflatable ring on the top edge making it look like a giant cannibal pot as the sides bulged out. The kids splashed about and were small enough they could even swim in the 3 and hall foot high pool..
One day I noticed a green tint to the water. I throw in some extra chemicals. By the third day what I had done wasn’t enough and suddenly the pool was solid green. I tried to correct the chemistry of the pool to bring back sparkling clear blue water. It was no use I simply dumped the water and stared over.
It may be easy to instantly turn a small pool’s water from green to sparkling blue waters in my back yard. However the oceans can not be dumped and started over, the ocean must be worked with to correct the problems at hand helping the ocean function so it can create and maintain the crystal waters the holds the perfect protein and all the sea live to help feed the world. Without a working ocean producing food a tipping point may happen and starvation may be the end result for millions. There still is time to correct our out of bounds thoughts and habits that the ocean can absorb anything and still provide what we need for the growing population of Earth: 7 billion and counting.
Plastic swirls in the ocean:
According to the daily mail (1) the swirling plastic in the Pacific Ocean, the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” (GPGP) keeps on growing by one hundred times since the 19970’s. and now is the size of the state of Texas, USA. Through samples of water taken since the 1970’s the researchers found little plastic in early samples of ocean water and in 2009 the water samples from the same area found the ocean polluted with billions of tiny pieces of confetti- like trash, plastic. Much of the plastic is less then 5 milometer in diameter and consumed by wild life like fish, sea turtles and other sea life. In 2009 one in ten fish caught for a study had plastic in their stomachs with some estimates were that fish digesting up to 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic a year. The GPGP is becoming much thicker and has around 100 times more plastic per cubic meter of water than during the 1970’s.
A “water strider” insect may benefit from the floating plastic using it to lay eggs and this may have a negative impact on it’s food supply of zooplankton and fish larvae upsetting the balance of the ocean and creating a food shortage for other animals or create a boom of the population of the animals that eat the insects. Ending up taking away food from some and plenty of food for other sea life.
Clean up may be impossible so prevention of adding plastic to the GPGP is the strategy today. Banning plastic bags and Styrofoam packaging will help. Just in California, USA 14 billion plastic bags are used annually with on y 3% being recycled in 2009.
There will be more calls for cities and states to ban plastic bags and Styrofoam packaging. In California, 14 billion plastic bags are distributed annually, and only 3 per cent are recycled. 80 percent of the trash in the Pacific Ocean come from land seems to point to a way to save the ocean by changing our behavior. To improve our oceans it seems to be in our hands.
Monterrey Bay Aquarium offers one solution:
I often visit the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and they offer a quick solution to help keep our source of perfect protein available. Giving guides of which fish it is best to eat, ok to eat or avoid. (See list below)
Final words:
There are many reasons to save the oceans the one that interests most people is the idea of having an unlimited supply of fish and sea life to feed themselves and the population. . We may only put a dent in the problems at hand of an abundance of small bits of plastic and keeping a supply of seafood on going. That is better than adding to the problem.
Avoiding the use of plastics or Styrofoam and eating the fish that are the “Best Choice” is a great start to keep a sustainable ocean. The person it starts with is each one of us first then the world. It seems to be doable today, tomorrow it may be too late.
Recycling what we use can help. If 100% of the plastic and Styrofoam (if it can be recycled) was recycled it would not end up in the ocean or in a landfill.
Recycling what we use can help. If 100% of the plastic and Styrofoam (if it can be recycled) was recycled it would not end up in the ocean or in a landfill.
The more proactive we can all become the more likely the negative results in life can be avoided. Buy the fish that are going to help save the ocean and avoid plastics or Styrofoam. Stand up tall with an upright posture and be proactive. The solution helps to keep moving the best direction is to step onto the path of True Health. Discover a new world. Help yourself, help the world, step on to the Path of True Health and vote with your dollars company you want to support to create a world you will love to live in. I do, and I like the world I am helping to create. Together we can create a better life for all to remember over their entire lifetime Together we can protect what we have so we don’t need to live in a world that is second rate.
(Best Choice fish list below)
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Photo creation by Cynthia G. Creel all rights reserved ©2013
Sand Dollars form the beach in California
Monterrey Bay Aquarium and Safe Fish list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QCs1H1dBIYU
Best Choice pick by Monterrey Bay Aquarium (1)
Abalone (US farmed)
Arctic Char (farmed)
Barramundi(US)
Bass: Striped (US hook & line,farmed)
Catfish (US)
Clams, Mussels, Oysters (farmed)
Cod: Pacific (US)
Crab: Dungeness
Halibut: Pacific (US)
Lobster: Spiny (CA, FL & Mexico)
Rockfish: Black (US hook & line)
Sablefish/Black Cod (AK & Canada)
Salmon (AK)
Sardines: Pacific (Canada &US)
Scallops (farmed)
Seabass: White (US hook & line)
Shrimp: Pink (OR)
Tilapia (Ecuador &US farmed)
Trout: Rainbow (US farmed)
Canned Tuna, Light: Skipjack (troll,
pole), Yellowfin (US troll, pole)
Canned Tuna, White:Albacore
(Canada &US troll, pole)
Good alternative pick by Monterrey Bay Aquarium (1)
Cod: Pacific (US trawl)
Crab (US) & Snow Crab (Canada)
Flatfish (Canada &US)
Halibut: California*
Lingcod*
Lobster
Mahi Mahi(US)
Monkfish (US)
Pangasius/Basa/Swai
Pollock:Alaska (US)
Prawn: Spot(US wild)
Sablefish (CA, OR & WA wild)
Salmon (CA, OR & WA wild)
Scallops (wild)
Shrimp (Canada &US wild)
Squid
Sturgeon, Caviar (US farmed)
Swordfish (US)
*
Tilapia (China & Taiwan)
Tuna: Bigeye (troll, pole &USAtlantic
longline*)
Tuna: Tongol, Yellowfin (troll, pole)
Yellowtail: California
Avoid pick by Monterrey Bay Aquarium
Chilean Seabass/Toothfish*
Cobia (Asia, Belize)
Cod: Pacific (Japan & Russia)
Crab: Red King (Russia)
Lobster: Spiny (Brazil)
Mahi Mahi(imported)
Marlin: Blue*
Marlin: Striped*
Orange Roughy*
Rockfish/”Pacific Snapper” (trawl)
Salmon (farmed includingAtlantic)
Sharks
*
Shrimp (imported)
Skates (USAtlantic)
Snapper: Red (US)
Sturgeon, Caviar (wild)
Swordfish (imported)
*
Tuna:Albacore*, Bigeye*, Bluefin*,
Canned*,Skipj
Click on link below to find a pocket guide for "Best Choice" fish:
Select a Seafood Watch Pocket Guide
Carry the pocket guide that's right for your region to help you choose ocean-friendly seafood wherever you live or travel. Click on your state on the map below to determine the pocket guide that's right for you. If you live near a boundary between two regions, we suggest that you look at both pocket guides and pick the one that lists the seafood items commonly found where you live.
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Sources:
(1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141911/Scientists-Amount-plastic-Texas-sized-Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch-increased-HUNDREDFOLD-1970s.html
(2) http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/download.aspx
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