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What is happening in our oceans? By describing their main elements, this book shows how and why the oceans are being transformed, and suggests possible future scenarios to address this complex, yet often-asked, question. The ocean is being dramatically transformed, but the magnitude of this transformation remains unclear since the ocean is largely inaccessible and still unknown: there is more information about the outer universe than about the deepest parts of our oceans.

The author, a marine biologist with extensive research experience, offers a holistic view of our oceans. Focusing on fishing, pollution and the effects of climate change, he identifies and describes the changes occurring in all marine ecosystems, and discusses the long-passed state of equilibrium.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Part I Seas of Yesteryear // 1 A Brief History of Our Seas 3 / The Mother of All Extinctions 7 / Great Marine Beasts 8 / Survivors Born 9 // 2 The Sea That Once Was 13 / The Mysterious History of the Black Sea 18 / The Red Forest that Disappeared 19 / The Closest Thing to the Past 21 // 3 Hunted to Extinction 23 / The Tragic Story of the Sea Cow 27 / The Extinction of the Great Auk 28 / The Sad Seal 30 // 4 Whatever Happened to Cod? 33 / Basques and Cod 38 / The Hated Competitors 39 / The Upcoming Changes 41 // 5 The End of the Cetaceans' Reign 43 / Disclosing Irregularities 47 / Scientific Hunting 48 / Whales and Climate Change 50 // Part II Effects of Over¿shing // 6 Major Fisheries and the End of Innocence 55 / Squid Take up Positions 61 / El Niño and the Peruvian Anchovy 63 / Cantabrian Anchovy 65 // 7 The Sea's Harvest 67 / Tuna and Traps 73 / The Forgotten Sharks 74 / Protecting the Open Ocean 76 // 8 Ploughing the Sea: The Destruction of the Marine / Forest 79 / Deep Corals 86 / What is the "Nursery Effect"? 88 / By-Catch 90 // 9 The Forgotten Fish 93 / Destroying with Dynamite 98 / But What Harm Can a Fishhook Do? 100 / Hunting in the Sea: Fishing with a Speargun 101 // 10 The Ghosts of the Sea 105 / A Small Sea of Jellyfish 111 / Giant Jellyfish (Nomura nomurai) 113 / Carybdea marsupialis, Mediterranean Cubomedusa 115 // 11 Precious Coral 117 / A Bit of History 124 / Emperor Sea Mountains 126 / An Example to Follow 127 // Part III Effects of Pollution // 12 The Silent Threat 131 / BP Disaster 136 / The Tragedy of Plastics 138 / Mercury in the Arctic 141 // 13 The Swamped Shoreline 143 / Dead Zones 151 / The Destruction of Coasts 154 / Too Many Visitors 157 // 14 The Stained Sea 159 / Red Tide and Invasions Through Ports 164 / Dark Slime 165 // 15 The True Alien Nightmare 167 / The Mediterranean: A Sea of Invasions 174 / "Killer" Algae 176 / A Problematic Crab 178 // Part IV Impact of Climate Change // 16 Climate Detectives 183 / Changes in Carbon Dioxide Balances over / the Last Millennium 189 / The Worst-Case Scenario 191 // 17 Arctic and Antarctic: Something Moves on the Ice 195 / Cryosphere 203 / What Happened at Larsen? 205 / Climate Change in My Direct Experience: A Unique / Expedition (R/V Polarstern ANT XXVII-3) 209 / There Are Only Four Polar Bears 211 // 18 Water Warming 213 / Tropicalization of the Mediterranean 220 / Coasts that Make Water 222 / Storms 224 // 19 More Acidic Seas 227 / The Keys to Understanding the Problem 234 / A Natural Laboratory on the Move 235 / The Mediterranean: A Special Case 236 / Climate Change "Mitigation" Experiments 237 // 20 The Slow Death of the Reef 241 / The Sick Reef 249 / Mass Mortalities in the Mediterranean 250 / Why is the 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Figure Important? 252 // Part V Future Prospects // 21 Farms in the Sea 257 / Fishing for Fish? 263 / China 264 / Shrimp and Mangrove Forests 266 / Algae Fields 269 // 22 The Sense Behind Marine Protected Areas 271 / No Monitoring, No Reservation 278 / How Much is an Ecosystem Worth? 280 / The Sea Ignored 282 // 23 Underwater Restoration 285 / Growing Red Coral 292 / Biological Corridors 293 / Replanting Posidonia and Other Spermatophytes 295 // 24 Energy and Matter from the Sea 299 / Deep Mining 307 / Integrated Future 310 // 25 Anything to Add? 313 / The Value of the Naturalist 318 / Educate, Transmit, Raise Awareness 320 // Epilogue 323 // Bibliography 325