[Coral-List] Bioturbulence Proven as a Factor in Ocean Mixing and it's Implications

[Melbourne Briscoe]

" The article, which proves bioturbulence for the first time is
likely relevant to overfishing of the oceans in general."
I don't understand how you conclude anything about overfishing from the
article you link, which does not mention overfishing. Can you explain?

I used to have an 1860's French textbook on "La Mer" that not only had
drawings of the Kraken dragging down a schooner, but described the things
that mixed the ocean, i.e. the sun, the moon, the rotation of the earth,
and "the combined motion of all the little fish tails." Walter Munk's
joking a century later was not a new idea.

- Mel

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 5:06 PM Austin Bowden-Kerby via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

>
> https://eos.org/articles/tiny-creatures-may-play-a-difficult-to-detect-role-in-ocean-mixing?utm_source=EosBuzz&mkt_tok=OTg3LUlHVC01NzIAAAGEo_OQQIW0rqNZgyI-5z4UkTpsHp10Uek4dHjh4bgXqzxC0SqtKmfPEA6BYterhbNRI5v4ND60Wn_3l4twA-r0yDS-9ZstGMrMhYqIHcA
>
> The article, which proves bioturbulence for the first time is likely
> relevant to overfishing of the oceans in general.  Also I am wondering
> about corals and hiw highly branched species can get properly oxygenated
> and fed in calm waters, and as branching corals in general do poorly when
> fish numbers are too low.  I believe that the fish are the circulatory
> system of the corals, dissipating wastes and bringing in oxygenated waters
> to the corals at microscale, as well as "dusting off" settling silt and
> even sand from corals.  Has anyone studied the topic of bioturbulence in
> corals?
>
> Regards,
>
> Austin
>
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> Austin Bowden-Kerby, PhD
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