[Coral-List] ECOBIOBALL
Dean Jacobson
atolldino at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 21:51:49 EDT 2012
The "bird poo" post reminds me of the GBR story of the floating platform installed next to the famous heart-shaped patch reef, for the convenience of tourists flown in by helicopter... this attracted birds and caused eutrophication and excessive algal growth of the reef from guano. Consistent with my work in the RMI, these reefs (at least the oligotrophic ones) are telling us they need very clean water.
Cheers,
Dean Jacobson
College of the Marshall Islands
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From: Robert Thigpen <para-la-langosta at earthlink.net>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] ECOBIOBALL
Eugene,
Como estas?
I tend to agree with Sarah, especially on the reinforcement of bad behavior
point. I would posit that it is never a good idea to teach humans that it is
ok to throw stuff into the sea, whether it be a board, plastics, iron
filings or fish food in any form. As far as bird poop, have you ever seen
what happens to it when it hits the water, it kind of falls apart and
disperses quickly, unlike a pseudo golf/fish food ball which I suppose would
sink intact and be an unsightly gooey mess on the bottom. Bird poo which I
think is a naturally occurring part of the system that I do not think it is
usually artificially introduced by people and that perhaps is the bigger
point. How can you compare these 2 things?
Also, what does fish hooks have to do with this topic? Why bring it up? FYI:
I am vehemently against throwing anything into the sea other than
retrievable fishing gears, and even some of them I despise.
...and isn't bringing up something that happened in Rio, a lot like bringing
up Bill and Monica while discussing drilling for oil in the Artic Wildlife
Refuge?
Your using the "drop in the bucket" metaphor brings something else to mind
for me, indeed an idea that I do not subscribe to: "The solution to
pollution is dilution." Was that your take home message?
Perhaps with the distractive rabbit trails you ran down, your irrelevant
comparisons and poorly placed metaphors I missed your point, if I did would
you please clarify for me. Thanks!
Blue skies,
Robby
-----Original Message-----
>From: Eugene Shinn
>Sent: Jun 25, 2012 1:24 PM
>To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>Subject: [Coral-List] ECOBIOBALL
>
>Come on Sarah..this is all so silly. Of course run off of fertilizers
>used on sea side golf courses is a source of nutrients. Now compare a
>one inch diameter sphere of fish food with the poop one seagull drops
>on the reef every day! The term "a drop in the bucket" comes to mind.
>Be happy the ecobioball does not have a fish hook attached. Has
>anyone looked closely at the reports of the recent Sustainability
>conference that just ended in Rio? Those greens flown in from around
>the world were really living the high life while the champagne
>flowed. Talk about hypocrisy! Next it may be baseball. Certainly that
>sport "will re-inforce a destructive behavior in people" Come on. Gene
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