Following @MissionBlue
We are now three days into the Mission Blue Voyage. Here is a snapshot of what has happened so far (from @MissionBlue):
Callum Roberts at #missionblue: One of the things we know about the past is that fish used to be far more abundant. http://bit.ly/bLw4RP
Jeremy Jackson at #missionblue: The really scary thing about all these ocean issues: they have synergy, they make each other worse.
Dan Laffoley at #missionblue: Last Thursday, the British government announced that Chagos — all 630K sq k of it — is now protected.
Jean-Michel Cousteau at #missionblue: How can we help the ocean? Make a connection with your local authorities. Speak from your heart.
Sylvia Earle at #missionblue: The 200-y-o orange roughie doesn’t know why his world has changed. We do. And we can do something about it.
Daniel Pauly at #missionblue: We degrade a fishing environment, then we re-set the baseline lower and continue fishing.
Barbara Block at #missionblue: Our strategy? Fish -n- chips. New kinds of tags with embedded chips and transponders to send data.
Dianna Cohen at #missionblue: It’s not just the gyre of plastic in the Pacific that scares me. It’s the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.
Roz Savage at #missionblue: We do the Pacific a disservice on our maps — we cut it in half. Google Earth shows how big it really is.
Brian Skerry at #missionblue: Photographs a leatherback turtle caught in a net, then cuts it free.
Kristina Gjerde at #missionblue: the oceans belong to us in common, but are managed by hundreds of unrelated entities.
Mark Tercek at #missionblue: Read more about the local economics of marine protected areas — hope spots:http://bit.ly/5mePmA
Barton Seaver at #missionblue: Just because there’s cod at the counter, doesn’t mean there’s enough cod in the sea.
Damien Rice at #missionblue: We have 12 minutes 37 seconds to write a song. Give me a chord and name an emotion.
Enric Sala at #missionblue: Data from fishers in Kenya before/after a ban on seine nets. Fishery rebounded and fishers doubled their income.
Rob Dunbar at #missionblue: Drilling through 100m of ice, 900m of water and 1300m into the seafloor to go back 4 million years.
Stephen Palumbi at #missionblue: We’re jamming a lot of garbage into the base of the ocean pyramid. Plankton problems work up the chain.
Chevy Chase at #missionblue: I don’t fish, just never have. But if fish could scream, I don’t think anyone would fish.
Dee Boersma #missionblue: We thought we’d need a hope spot of about 30km. Then we started tagging penguins. They travel up to 800km to feed
Peter Tyack at #missionblue: As two dolphins create a social bond, their distinctive calls merge. They learn each other’s call.
Sven Lindblad at #missionblue: The metric for ocean ideas: they should be big and sweeping and immediate. The ocean needs help now.
Mike Rutzen at #missionblue: We say we don’t know anything about shark behavior. But we only see them in predator behavior.
Edith Widder at #missionblue: Most sea animals see blue light. So one smart fish makes red light, which he uses like a sniper scope.
Fred Grassle at #missionblue on historic first trip to the vents. Finding tube worms and a “jellyfish-related thing” called a dandelion.
Mike deGruy at #missionblue: If you’ve ever wanted to see something no one has ever seen, get in a submarine.
