prime tance, constitute of t are o about 25percent of its fish.
Elseralia. itline and almost nine million square miles of territorial ers, it ssry, yet, as tim Flannery notes, it doesn’t even make it into topfifty among fisions. Indeed, Australia is a large net importer of seafood. tralia’s ers are, like mucralia itself, essentially desert. (Anotable exception is t Barrier Reef off Queensland, produces little in trient-rich runoff.
Even en extremely sensitive to disturbance. In tralia and, to a lesser extent, Nele-kno inental sible parts of giant squid, in particular te in sperm ance kno time you spray on Co reflect t you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster.
rouged in ime at all, fissric tons of rougs madesome alarming discoveries. Rougremely long lived and slouring. Some maybe 150 years old; any rougen may yle because ters ters, some fis once in a lifetime. Clearly tions t cannot stand a great deal of disturbance. Unfortunately, by time tocks ed. Even it ions recover, if they ever do.
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Many fis is, slice to terto die. In 1998, s for over $250 a pound. A bookyo for $100. timated in 1994 t tween 40 million and 70 million.
As of 1995, some 37,000 industrial-sized fis a million smaller boats,aking ty-five yearsearlier. traimes noter planes to locate she air.
It is estimated t about a quarter of every fis ains “by-catc can’t be landed because too small or of type or caugold t: “e’re still in t drop a netdoy-tric tons of suced fisly in ted, about four pounds of fisures aredestroyed.
Large areas of traimes a year, a degree of disturbance t no ecosystem can and. At least timates, are being overfislantic tter. once abounded in suc individual boatscould land ty t in a day. No extinct off t coast of North America.
Note of cod. In te fifteentury, t found cod in incredible numbers on tern banks of Norter popular tom-feeding fis.
Georges Banks off Massacts is bigger tate it abu