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Map Reveals Extensive Damage to World's Oceans

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B.S. Halpern

A new map shows that human activity has heavily affected more than 40 percent of the world's oceans. Hardly any areas remain untouched.

 

 

 

“Our results show that when these and other individual impacts are summed up, the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected.”

Ben Halpern, Research Biologist

 

 

Talk of the Nation, February 15, 2008 · Researchers have published a new map highlighting the human impact on oceans worldwide. Their findings show oceans are in serious trouble, with declining fish stocks, disappearing coral reefs and changing water chemistry.

"Our results show that when these and other individual impacts are summed up, the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected," says Ben Halpern, lead author of the paper published in the journal Science.

In a special live broadcast from Boston, Mass. — site of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting — top ocean experts discuss the prognosis for the world's aquatic ecosystems — and their inhabitants.

Guests:

Larry Crowder, professor of marine biology and director of the Center for Marine Conservation, Duke University

Ben Halpern, associate research biologist, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jane Lubchenco, professor of marine biology, professor of zoology, Oregon State University

Carl Safina, co-founder and president of the Blue Ocean Institute at the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Environment

Scientists Map Ocean Damage

by John Nielsen

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B.S. Halpern

A new map reveals ocean areas most damaged by human activities.

 

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All Things Considered, February 14, 2008 · Maps are drawn to tell us about the ways in which mankind has shaped the landscape by building things like roads, canals and cities. Those maps often leave the world's oceans all but blank.

But now a group of scientists has drawn a map that leaves the land blank and highlights what humans have done to the world's oceans. The team was led by Ben Halpern of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, Calif. Halpern says the goal is to focus more attention on a part of the world that seems out of sight and out of mind.

"Fly over the ocean in a plane and all you see is blue water," Halpern said. "All you can think is, 'Oh my goodness, how can we possibly be having an impact on such a vast resource?'"

The map, which was published in the journal Science, overlays the ocean with bands of color to highlight manmade changes like overfishing and coastal pollution. Pristine areas, shown in blue, are found in oceans near the poles. More-stressed ocean waters are yellow and orange. Trouble spots are red. Halpern says the red zones are the ones found near big cities and near overcrowded coastlines.

"These are the most impacted ocean areas on the planet," Halpern says. "It's where the combination of human activities, from shipping to fishing to land-based pollution, are coming together to make things really bad."

According to the map, the most disturbed ocean areas include Europe's North Sea, the South and East China Seas, the Persian Gulf, and parts of the Atlantic near the East Coast of the United States. Surprisingly, small zones of pristine ocean water can be found in many of these areas. Halpern says these are the kinds of zones that need to be preserved as a first step toward saving more badly damaged ocean waters.

Changing Our View of Oceans

The data used to make this map came from a wide variety of sources, Halpern says. Fisheries statistics came from the United Nations, and the United States provided data collected by satellites.

But Halpern says that left a lot of gaps. For example, he says his team lacked key information on the fish and other sea life killed and then thrown overboard by giant fishing fleets. Some of those blank spots were filled in by computer programs that allow marine biologists to guess at what they'd find in certain parts of the ocean.

Larry Crowder, a fisheries biologist at Duke University in North Carolina, says this map could change the way a lot of people see the oceans. He compares it to the famous photos of Earth taken by Apollo astronauts in 1968.

That photo "put everybody on the same page, as in 'Hey, we're all living on a little blue dot,'" Crowder says. The new map, he says, "shows us that the ocean isn't infinite, that we can put too much in and take too much out, that we can damage the system upon which we all depend."

The team that drew the new map of the oceans is now working on more detailed regional maps that might be used to predict emerging threats to places like the waters off the coast of California.

 

Related NPR Stories

• May 27, 2006
  Ocean Fishing May Spread 'Runt' Genes
• Oct. 13, 2006
  Water Policy Around the World
• Aug. 5, 2004
  Ocean Researchers Take Fish Farming Off Shore

 

 

The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, created by Congress in 2000 and appointed by President Bush (news - web sites), concluded that human actions have seriously jeopardized the health of the oceans, from huge and toxic algae blooms to depletion of fish stocks. Only a major overhaul of federal policy could reverse the trend, the commission found in its 413-page report.

Citing increasing pressures from pollution, overfishing and residential development, a federal commission on Tuesday called for sweeping changes in how the U.S. manages the oceans, including allocating billions of dollars in gas and oil royalties for ocean preservation.

"If our report is adopted, the payoff will be great," said retired Adm. James Watkins, committee chairman. "It's now obvious that ocean resources are not limitless, nor are ocean waters capable of continual self-cleansing. The point is this: It's up to us to find ways to use and enjoy the oceans in a sustainable way."

To attack the problems, the commission said the federal government must work to streamline ocean management, which is spread among "a confusing array of agencies at the federal, state and local levels."

"We need to do something, and we need to do something fast, or we are going to spend many times more to clean up existing messes," Davis said, but "a report like this can't mandate political will. At the end of the day, that's what we need more than anything else."

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