![]() ![]() ![]() "Nowhere else in the world are ancient lines of marine fishes vanishing with such haste. Marine life in the Pacific Northwest fares no better, Safina reports. Now hovering at 6,000 tons of fish, what's left is about one-sixth of what's needed for a healthy, reproducing fishery. Off the Atlantic coast, the giant bluefin tuna population has suffered a 90 percent drop in the past 15 years. Safina's major case studies - he is an adjunct professor at Yale and directs the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program - support his pessimism. ![]() One is a funeral dirge first heard in the preface: "From my own vantage point - my research and fishing activities - it seemed that a last buffalo hunt was occurring on the rolling blue prairies of the oceans." $30Ĭarl Safina's stunning new book really has two songs for the ocean. SONG FOR THE BLUE OCEAN Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas By Carl Safina Henry Holt. By James William Gibson February 23, 1998 ![]()
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