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  • Warmer seas, over-fishing spell disaster for oceans: scientists

    04/14/2008 11:10:23 AM PDT · by cogitator · 62 replies · 1,841+ views
    Terra Daily ^ | 04/11/2008 | Staff Writers
    The future food security of millions of people is at risk because over-fishing, climate change and pollution are inflicting massive damage on the world's oceans, marine scientists warned this week. The two-thirds of the planet covered by seas provide one fifth of the world's protein -- but 75 percent of fish stocks are now fully exploited or depleted, a Hanoi conference that ended Friday was told. Warming seas are bleaching corals, feeding algal blooms and changing ocean currents that impact the weather, and rising sea levels could in future threaten coastal areas from Bangladesh to New York, experts said. "People...