Lights
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Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
I am putting this up here since I think that most TITANIACs also love the ocean that she sailed. Now there is a problem with people being greedy and wanting to extend the Grand Banks overfishing disaster elsewhere.
If you want to make your voice heard, here is the link:
Petition to Help Stop Overfishing
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Oct/10/2005, 9:03 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
I see where you're coming from, Lights...as the wife of a sailor, who inherited his fondness for the sea from both his granddad and father. It would be sad if there was no more fish of anykind to harvest.
But look at it this way...remember that story in the Bible for which from a few loaves of bread and fish, Jesus caused this wee lad's lunch to multiply for the masses of people gathered to listen to him preach? Well, if you put your complete trust in Him, He will keep our needs well supplied. That you can count on. :boat:
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Oct/11/2005, 8:34 am
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Lights
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
Well, I prefer to think that God gave us minds and hearts to both love His Creation and want to take care of it. And if we do not do something about it, then we do stand responsible before Him. The miracle of the loaves and fishes was because there was a multitude right then and there that needed to be cared for...I do not believe that God is going to replicate this every day as a fall back position because His creatures have gone and abused His Bounty...and I believe that is just what overfishing is--abusing the bounty that he put on earth.
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Oct/11/2005, 12:00 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
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Lights Wrote:
Well, I prefer to think that God gave us minds and hearts to both love His Creation and want to take care of it. And if we do not do something about it, then we do stand responsible before Him. The miracle of the loaves and fishes was because there was a multitude right then and there that needed to be cared for...I do not believe that God is going to replicate this every day as a fall back position because His creatures have gone and abused His Bounty...and I believe that is just what overfishing is--abusing the bounty that he put on earth.
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Oct/11/2005, 1:31 pm
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Mr Titanic
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
Precisely, we being humans are aware of when something has been carried out too far or taken out of proportion. Think of all the animals that are currently extinct, wiped completley out of exsistence! I see no problem in making mistakes, it is inevitable, however I should think there is flaw in knowing of a problem or mistake, refraining from correcting it, and instead contributing to it's intensity! The logic in this action is rather opaque if there at all.
Regardless, the fishing of the Grand Banks as Lights mentioned is not fishing, it is overfishing and it effects much more than the fish themselves.
Keep in mind that the ocean environment is a chain of energy, like that of the environments on land. In other words there exsists a food chain where energy is passed on as organisms are consumed in the pyramid of predator and prey. The fish that are being fished are a part of this "chain" and by being fished are being taken out of the intial natural equation. Fish feed on smaller fish and Plankton in the Grand Banks. The plankton consists of Zooplankton (meat eaters) and Photoplankton (plants - Photosynthesis). The Zooplankton feed on the Photoplankton, and the fish feed on both, each species survives and the population is controlled. Photoplankton contribute to most of the worlds oxygen supply. However when fish are removed by the process of overfishing, a number of effects are encountered.
For one, the Zooplankton are not being eaten by fish, so they feed on more Photoplankton. Photoplankton decreses and the earth receives less oxygen. According to Dr. Pellegrino Carbon Dioxide has increased in content by 2 Percent in only three years (as it was level!). This is a direct cause of global warming. Carbon Dioxide and the damaged ozone .. it all adds up.
Second, is how it effects the Titanic, yes the TITANIC. The liner's wreck is covered in an organism composed of billion year old bacteria (which usually live near deep ocean vents such as the Mid Ocean Ridge of the Atlantic, Dr. Ballard found them in the south Pacific and Dr. Pellegrino was fisrt to dissect a rusticle community). This bacteria forms communities that feed on the ships Iron content as rusticles, and they grow as well as develop. The Zooplankton not eaten, then die, and fall to the sea floor as "Sea Snow" (or the white little bits you see on Titanic footage falling and floating around). This feeds the rusticles, making them grow, and as they grow they get hungrier! And what is it they consume? Iron from the Titanic... Overfishing also contributes to the manitude of the Titanic's disintegration rates. Not to mention increasing sediment..
This is a serious issue not to mention less fish and just disturbing the natural process of balanced life God himself intended.
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Oct/11/2005, 8:18 pm
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Lights
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
Thank you so much James. You have said it all so eloquently. And yes, the overfishing affects our beloved Titanic. Over  ing has accelerated the rate of her decomposition/digestion of her remaining iron.
And yes, God created things in balance...it is humans that keep throwing this off balance...unfortunately the rest of nature is affected and increasingly it is NOT for the good! 
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Oct/11/2005, 11:52 pm
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Mr Titanic
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
You're welcome Lights, Thank You as well. Overfishing seems to have many reactions around the world, and it's been proven that the rusticles are indeed growing denser. The rusticles feed on the coating the "sea snow" effects provide through ducts on their outer structural coating. The Titanic's Iron provides support for these rusticles like calcium would the skeletal system. The rusticles consume something like 700 pounds of steel from the Titanic wreck a day.
Increase in overfishing is certainly not a good thing, especially providing the current amount of fish in the sea has already caused problems as it is.
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Oct/16/2005, 11:04 am
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Lights
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
This is NOT good news, Mr Titanic. 700 pounds a day? (*shakes head*).
I understand that contrary to what might be believed by many people, it is the phytoplankton which contribute most of the oxygen on earth, not the trees, though of course they do help (this makes sense as the phytoplankton would have been responsible for the so-called "Oxygen Crisis" (about 2 billion years ago, the atmospheric levels of oxygen were much lower than today...then phytoplankton developed, and one of the "waste" products it gave off was oxygen. Most other life at the time could not metalbolise oxygen, in fact, for them, it was a poison [oxygen is a corrosive gas...hence things like rust and tarnish on silver]. This is why the huge output of oxygen into the atmosphere at that time is referred to as a "Crises", because, for those who could not metabolise oxygen, it was. Later, animals and plants developed the ability to do so,but the first animalsugh to be able to make use of oxygen were phytoplankton...they were and remain the largest producers of oxygen on the planet. Anything which endangers them endangers us...as Chief Seattle was supposed to have said, "All is a web; what we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
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Jul/17/2006, 9:15 am
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Mr Titanic
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Re: Please Help NOAA Stop Overfishing!
I know Lights, the loss is an average of 0.20 tons of iron per day. Six hundred and fifty tons of dry weight rusticles are inhabiting just the outside shell of the bow section alone. As a whole there is enough to cover the state of California. It really is a big deal and the sea snow effects are significant.
Phytoplankton are a major source of Oxygen and maintained levels of Ocean pH at 8 {basic}. Oxygen is also deadly because it is highly flamable, keep in mind.
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Jul/17/2006, 11:40 am
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