When the Dolphins have gone

To solve a problem you have to understand a problem

(said Boyan Slat of the Ocean Clean Up organisation).

The Ocean Clean Up organisation are about to kill, Poison and Contaminate marine life on an unprecedented scale whilst endangering marine life and the ocean environment around the world, far worse than the problem is already.

A wise man knows the difference between a good idea, and an obsession !

So many questions need answering, please release your policy on handling these types of situations – before deployment !

Or if you are "hell bent" on continuing and going to gather up illegally dumped North Atlantic leaking toxic waste and concentrate it in 50 or so single patch's whilst arranging to let it drift south to the reefs (extreme I know, but possible) then at least let the marine organisation know to get prepared for utter devastation....

incidentally, why has it took a "none scientist" to point this out? (it is called due diligence)

Read on if you care at all about marine life, other than liking pictures;

Put it this way, when the dolphins have gone (read below), then will you understand and get the message ?

This factual report, from just one happening years ago further amplifies what it is I am trying to warn the Marine community about.....

The Marine community must have linked in members or professionals who take action to sort this pending doom out.

 I am not a scientist, I am a Chairman who is showing due diligence towards an epic adventure and found disturbing facts out along the way.

I am making plans to extract waste, correctly, professionally and seeking top level involvement to best understand how, why and when, so Ocean Resource Management cause “minimal” disruption to marine life – ORM will cause some disruption, but the job of extracting the waste out of the ocean and off the beaches has to be done.

“Other” Marine organisation and professionals should be investigating and/or doing something about it.... I care enough to bring these issues to light, but who is going to act ?

The Ocean Clean Up’s 50 “floating catchment barriers” all being blown around our worlds oceans could cause major and catastrophic destruction to our marine environment -

A website link to show you the problem and a website PDF link to explain how such problems occurred;

https://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/species.php?sc=95

https://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/Publikationen-PDF/Study_Silent_Invasion.pdf

Read on

I am NOT “anti Ocean Clean Up” this is ALL fact; Please Google search - Planktonic life, Coral Spawn, Baby turtles, fish eggs, migratory routes, breeding grounds – search maritime laws and legislation on transference....the list goes on..

Anchoring the original system to capture everything was bad enough, but as you cannot control the “new” floating systems, that is even worse....

(Planktonic - Small organisms that float or drift in great numbers in bodies of salt or fresh water. Plankton is a primary food source for many animals, and consists of bacteria, protozoans, certain algae, cnidarians, tiny crustaceans such as copepods, and many other organisms).

Now you can seriously damage marine life...you put the wrong eggs, spawn, bacteria along with any man made pollutants that you will “re-concentrate” and pick up along the way in to areas that are protected or already struggling = Devastation.

What Ocean Resource Management have learned (and The Ocean Clean Up operation should already know) is that Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat, Phytoplankton absorb energy from the Sun and nutrients from the water to produce their own food.

 In the process of photosynthesis, phytoplankton release molecular oxygen (O. 2) into the water.

It is estimated that between 50% and 85% of the world's oxygen is produced via phytoplankton photosynthesis.

The original plan of anchoring the system was bad enough.... now letting these “floating barrier traps” loose will have even more of a dramatic effect on marine life as we know it.....

For every action, there is a reaction

The equipment you have developed, anchor off shore, around the 10 major outlets that have been identified as a major part of the problem, and I will send a ship on a regular basis to collect it up.

(If you don’t know this either, follow the link below);

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html

Mother Nature has done what you are trying to emulate, but she used NATURAL tidal flow. Your system will get guided by the wind and put the wrong marine life, in the wrong place, at the wrong time !

Plus anything that survives this ordeal then ends up on your conveyors to die a horrible death in a floating holding tower...are you serious !

Governments around the world along with maritime organisation have great issues with “transference” and have legislation in place. These floating barriers have a “chance” of collecting up, not only marine life, but contaminates and pollutants and deliver them to the wrong part of the world at the wrong time of year.

a) Will the system know the difference between marine life and waste before going up the conveyors ?

b) Will the system "collect up" and re concentrate chemicals/oil spills/pollutants that mother nature is naturally trying to disperse?

c) What have you in place for transference of Harmful Aquatic Organisms ?

I did try and advise Slat but, the problem with advice is; clever people dont need it and stupid people dont take it !

If you think floating barriers driven against tides by wind will not catch anything other than waste – then dont worry.

If you think floating barriers driven against tides by wind will NOT re concentrate oil spills and chemicals’ floating on the surface that mother Nature is naturally trying to disperse , then dont worry

Below is just ONE example resulting in NO dolphins; (got your interest now) ?

Start to worry !

Mnemiopsis ledyi is a major zooplankton predator and is associated with fishery crashes (Costello, 2001). A carnivorous predator on edible zooplankton (including meroplankton), pelagic fish eggs and larvae, M. leidyi causes negative impacts right through the foodchain of the areas it has invaded. In the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the zooplankton, ichthyoplankton and zooplanktivorous fish stocks all underwent profound changes.

The pelagic ecosystem of the Black Sea was degraded, manifesting as sharply decreased biodiversity, abundance, and biomass of the main components of the pelagic ecosystem-zooplankton (Dumont and Shiganova). Fish stocks in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov have suffered due to predation on eggs and larval stages of food supplies (Shiganova 2003). Effects on the ecosystem in the Caspian Sea were faster and stronger than in the Black Sea. In 2001, repercussions were felt at all trophic levels, including that of the top predator, the Caspian seal (Dumont and Shiganova).

A cascading effect occurred at the higher trophic levels, from a decrease in zooplankton stock and collapsing planktivorous fish, to vanishing predatory fish and dolphins.

Similar effects occurred at lower trophic levels: from a decrease in zooplankton stock to an increase in phytoplankton, which was released from zooplankton grazing pressure.

Similar effects, but less pronounced, were recorded in the Sea of Marmara. Effects on Mediterranean food webs have, so far, remained insignificant. Salinity is probably supraoptimal there, and several predators prevent M.leidyi from reaching outbreak levels

Need I say anymore on the subject ?

Paul Manning - Chairman - Ocean Resource Management

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