Protecting the Sea Around Us

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Protecting the Sea Around Us

• Jim Ayers
• Vice President, Oceana

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Wealth from the Salt Seas
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The Encircling Sea
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The HIPPO Challenge
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The H in HIPPO Habitat
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A Wondrous Surprise Aleutian Coral Gardens
Video of Aleutian Coral Garden
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The Threat Bottom Trawling
Video of Bottom Trawling
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Seguam Pass
Untrawled
Trawled
Video of Area before trawling
Video of Area after trawling
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A Glimmer of Hope More than 700,000 square
miles of the Pacific including 379,000 square
miles in the Aleutians has been protected from
bottom trawling in the past five years.
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Feeling the HeatGlobal Climate Change
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Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic Sea Ice Data September 9, 2007 Source
National Snow and Ice Data Center (www.nsidc.com)
The pink line shows the median September sea ice
extent based on data from 1979 to 2000
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World's relative geography
World's population

Global CO2 emissions
Distribution of worlds wealth
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• Executive Administration, NOAA and Regional
  Councils, Petition
• Courts Set the record for lawsuits, Petition
• Legislative State and National
• Press/Public Informed Public
• Alliances Between Organizations and Nations

MISSION Moving National and
World Governments to Ecosystem-based Management
that provides for health, biodiversity, and
resilience of oceans and marine life.
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What Can I Do?

• Overcome Avarice and Sloth
• Consume Less
• Consume Responsibly
• Get Informed and Get Involved
• Think Sustainably

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• We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike
  the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they
  are not equally fair. The road we have long been
  traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth
  superhighway on which we progress with great
  speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other
  fork of the road -- the one less traveled by --
  offers our last, our only chance to reach a
  destination that assures the preservation of the
  earth.
• --Rachel Carson