I believe everyone wants to regulate things that are important to survival of a major industry and product, but it seems this new technology in the hands of certain individuals that have a sense of entitlement power to protect everyone from imagined catastrophic things happening, has a history of boarding on insanity.
Climate change?
Are these the same people that predicted the polar ice would be gone in10 years a decade ago if we didn't make major changes to our life styles. But of course that was a fabrication, an out lie to generate $100's of millions of taxpayer dollars to flow into the pockets of special interest gropes to research the effects of global warming to ''save the planet'', now known as 'climate change'.
Pay no attention to the guy behind the curtain working the leavers of climate research. The truth is the ice is thicker now then ever! Who really cares? Just give me the money.
Over the decades, more then a billion dollars have been spent to save the planet but it seems the planet didn't need the fear mongers, charlatans, the climate con-men like Al Gore. The planet goes on with out the help of willing criminals masquerading as scientists. Who knew?
So what will this new technology will do to help ''save'' the oceans will remain to be seen. Still, if history is any indicator of future operations environmentalist, the planet savers and or oceans savers will be front and center with their hands out for more $millions of taxpayer dollars to do more research to produce more assumptions based on flawed computer models.
I really do hope this new technology will be used to actually help our oceans to become more productive, but if again history is any indication of what will happen now, the taxpayers, the real scientists, the fishing industry and the citizens of the world that like to eat fish are screwed. It will only be those at the leveler of the satellites screaming ''we are going to die'', who will make out like bandits in the night. The way to save the oceans is more money for research!!
Satellites see big fishing’s footprint on the high seas
By Seth Borenstein - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Scientists tag sharks to see where they roam in the high seas, but until now they couldn’t track the seas’ biggest eater: Humans.
By using ships’ own emergency beacons, researchers got the first comprehensive snapshot of industrial fishing’s impacts around the globe. And it’s huge — bigger than scientists thought, according to a new study.
Large-scale commercial fishing covers more than 55 percent of the oceans with the world’s fishing fleet traveling more than 285 million miles a year — three times the distance between Earth and the sun, according to research in Thursday’s journal Science.
Five countries — China, Spain, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea — were responsible for 85 percent of high seas fishing. “The most mind-blowing thing is just how global an enterprise this is,” said study co-author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Canada. “It’s more like factories that are mass producing product for a global market and less like hunters that are stalking individual prey.”
The fishing patterns were gleaned from 22 billion automated ship safety signals beamed to satellites. Before this, scientists had to rely on a sampling of ships’ logs and observations, which were spotty.
Ships are obeying nofishing zones and times, although they hover at the edges of marine-protected areas. Fishing tends to drop on holidays including Christmas, New Year’s and the Lunar New Year, researchers found. “The maps of global fishing in this report are sobering,” Douglas McCauley, a University of California, Santa Barbara marine biologist who wasn’t part of the study, said in an email.
China dominates global fishing. Of the 40 million hours that large ships fished in 2016, 17 million hours were by boats under a Chinese flag, according to another study co-author, Stanford marine biologist Barbara Block.
“ No longer is the ocean — especially the high seas — out of sight, out of mind. No longer should it be the ‘wild, wild wet’,” former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said in an email. She was not part of the study.
Researchers said these findings could be used to better protect the oceans and keep fisheries alive.
“For too long we haven’t recognized that human impacts are the largest impacts on the planet,” Block said. “We have to come up with a better (monitoring) system or else we’ll end up with a planet devoid of bluefin tuna, certain sharks.”
This image provided by Global Fishing Watch shows fishing activity around the world in 2016. [GLOBAL FISHING WATCH VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]
Climate change?
Are these the same people that predicted the polar ice would be gone in10 years a decade ago if we didn't make major changes to our life styles. But of course that was a fabrication, an out lie to generate $100's of millions of taxpayer dollars to flow into the pockets of special interest gropes to research the effects of global warming to ''save the planet'', now known as 'climate change'.
Pay no attention to the guy behind the curtain working the leavers of climate research. The truth is the ice is thicker now then ever! Who really cares? Just give me the money.
Over the decades, more then a billion dollars have been spent to save the planet but it seems the planet didn't need the fear mongers, charlatans, the climate con-men like Al Gore. The planet goes on with out the help of willing criminals masquerading as scientists. Who knew?
So what will this new technology will do to help ''save'' the oceans will remain to be seen. Still, if history is any indicator of future operations environmentalist, the planet savers and or oceans savers will be front and center with their hands out for more $millions of taxpayer dollars to do more research to produce more assumptions based on flawed computer models.
I really do hope this new technology will be used to actually help our oceans to become more productive, but if again history is any indication of what will happen now, the taxpayers, the real scientists, the fishing industry and the citizens of the world that like to eat fish are screwed. It will only be those at the leveler of the satellites screaming ''we are going to die'', who will make out like bandits in the night. The way to save the oceans is more money for research!!
Satellites see big fishing’s footprint on the high seas
By Seth Borenstein - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Scientists tag sharks to see where they roam in the high seas, but until now they couldn’t track the seas’ biggest eater: Humans.
By using ships’ own emergency beacons, researchers got the first comprehensive snapshot of industrial fishing’s impacts around the globe. And it’s huge — bigger than scientists thought, according to a new study.
Large-scale commercial fishing covers more than 55 percent of the oceans with the world’s fishing fleet traveling more than 285 million miles a year — three times the distance between Earth and the sun, according to research in Thursday’s journal Science.
Five countries — China, Spain, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea — were responsible for 85 percent of high seas fishing. “The most mind-blowing thing is just how global an enterprise this is,” said study co-author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Canada. “It’s more like factories that are mass producing product for a global market and less like hunters that are stalking individual prey.”
The fishing patterns were gleaned from 22 billion automated ship safety signals beamed to satellites. Before this, scientists had to rely on a sampling of ships’ logs and observations, which were spotty.
Ships are obeying nofishing zones and times, although they hover at the edges of marine-protected areas. Fishing tends to drop on holidays including Christmas, New Year’s and the Lunar New Year, researchers found. “The maps of global fishing in this report are sobering,” Douglas McCauley, a University of California, Santa Barbara marine biologist who wasn’t part of the study, said in an email.
China dominates global fishing. Of the 40 million hours that large ships fished in 2016, 17 million hours were by boats under a Chinese flag, according to another study co-author, Stanford marine biologist Barbara Block.
“ No longer is the ocean — especially the high seas — out of sight, out of mind. No longer should it be the ‘wild, wild wet’,” former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said in an email. She was not part of the study.
Researchers said these findings could be used to better protect the oceans and keep fisheries alive.
“For too long we haven’t recognized that human impacts are the largest impacts on the planet,” Block said. “We have to come up with a better (monitoring) system or else we’ll end up with a planet devoid of bluefin tuna, certain sharks.”
This image provided by Global Fishing Watch shows fishing activity around the world in 2016. [GLOBAL FISHING WATCH VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]
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