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So I proposed a story on the global fish crisis, in part because I had personally witnessed a lot of degradation in the ocean over the last 30 years, but also because I read a scientific paper that stated that 90 percent of the big fish in the ocean have disappeared in the last 50 or 60 years.
The first component of the story that I thought was essential, however, was to give readers a sense of appreciation for the ocean animals that they were eating.
As I wandered around and made these pictures, it sort of occurred to me that the ocean's not a grocery store, you know.
And as this assembly is towed through the water, the doors meet resistance with the ocean, and it opens the mouth of the net, and they place floats at the top and a lead line on the bottom.
And to make that point even more visual, I swam under the shrimp boat and made this picture of the guy shoveling this bycatch into the sea as trash and photographed this cascade of death, you know, animals like guitarfish, bat rays, flounder, pufferfish, that only an hour before, were on the bottom of the ocean, alive, but now being thrown back as trash.
And other recent stories have looked at single, flagship species, if you will, that are at risk in the ocean as a way of talking about other threats.
Here we see a female crawling out of the ocean under moonlight on the island of Trinidad.
They have to deal with things like toxins and pharmaceuticals that are flushed out into the ocean, and maybe even affecting their reproduction.
I settled on working in the country of New Zealand because New Zealand was rather progressive, and is rather progressive in terms of protecting their ocean.
So when the fish control the urchin population, the ocean was restored to its natural equilibrium.
You know, this is probably how the ocean looked here one or 200 years ago, but nobody was around to tell us.
The ocean is, indeed, resilient and tolerant to a point, but we must be good custodians.
But by measuring the way that Europa interacts with the magnetic field of Jupiter, and looking at how those cracks in the ice that you can see there on that graphic move around, we've inferred very strongly that there's an ocean of liquid surrounding the entire surface of Europa.
So below the ice, there's an ocean of liquid around the whole moon.
The very last thing we need to do is clean the ocean.
Yeah, there is a garbage truck of plastic entering the ocean every minute of every hour of every day.
And I'm still here, standing in front of you, telling you the very last thing we need to do is clean the ocean.
Why aren't we doing the same for the ocean?
Even if the Ocean Cleanup project, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred percent successful, it would still be too little, too late.
Roughly eight million ton are racing to flow into the ocean to join the estimated 150 million ton already there.
Reportedly, 80 percent of ocean plastic is coming from those countries that have extreme poverty.
And so, OK, maybe cleaning the ocean is futile.
But preventing ocean plastic could be humanity's richest opportunity.
Over the ocean, it's not even land.
And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to a much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean.
To me, the most mind-bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.
The ocean has properties that allow low-frequency sound to basically move globally.
In the early '70s, Roger Payne and an ocean acoustician published a theoretical paper pointing out that it was possible that sound could transmit over these large areas, but very few biologists believed it.
It actually turns out, though, even though we've only known of long-range propagation for a few decades, the whales clearly have evolved, over tens of millions of years, a way to exploit this amazing property of the ocean.
I'd like to briefly just show what the ocean does to these calls.
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