Posted on 07/13/2008 9:53:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Read it as:
"The charity 'Buglife' . . ."
And the road-construction term "macadam" is named after a person with the family name, "McAdam" or "MacAdam" (specifically, "John Loudon McAdam," not to be confused with Senator John Loudon)...but "Macadam" is also a name common in Scotland. Note that "tarmac" is from "tar-bound macadam," not an invention of Dr. MacTar. :-)
Tuna are not plankton eaters. They eat big stuff like lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and barnacles. clams, snails, oysters and mussels, and even each other.
not that I agree with one second of man made global warming hysteria.
Let’s sue the Sun.
Oh, my word!!! The tuna fish have eaten everything.
The funny thing is that zooplankton is a great “vitamin supplement” and when grown on fish farms, the effluent “recharges” the sea. Man can actually stimulate the growth of zooplankton relatively easily.
I believe there have been several artciles recently about similar phenomenon off the West Coast. Let’s see if I can capture the jist from memory. The Pacific decadal oscillation (El Nino and La Nina) drive weather and the upwelling of phytoplankton. This is what feeds fish like salmon. When too many rise and the surface water is warm, like algae, they can deplete the water in a local area of oxygen causing dead zones of no life, such as have arisen off the Oregon Coast. Upwelling patterns also drive salmon populations. They have a general rythm in the oscillation so that when Alaska populations are high, lower west coast populations tend to be low and vice versa. What is happening now is unusual. It effected the Klamath runs in past years, now it seems to be effecting the Sacramento runs. (The fishermen would have you believe it is all inland issues because they are agenda driven to change water management, land use practices and dams.) So it is not just Scotland. I think Norway may also be experiencing it and there have been articles on that.
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