Plunder and Ruin

A historical moment for your life of the oceans is at hand as being the Fisheries Committee from the European Parliament wrangles with proposed legislation to phase out using deep-se-bottom trawls and also other destructive fishing gear in the Northeast Atlantic. And yet this crucial legislation could well be killed in coming days, not least because some of the committee's 25 members represent districts with powerful interests in deepsea fishing.

A lot of the panel's members are given to repeating partial truths supplied by lobbyists regarding the sustainability of deep-sea tuna stocks and the lack of damage to tuna life towards the bottom of your ocean, because they discuss the merits of your legislation. The committee could have succeeded in keeping the measure bottled up and far from consideration through the full Parliament if these voices prevail in a vote later this month. The biodiversity from the deep sea is equaled only by those of tropical rain forests, and also the destruction of rain forests has long been seen to affect biodiversity as well as the global climate. Similarly the deep sea is home to countless species, like the oldest known living animal as well as life-forms found nowhere else. Not a whole lot is famous about life inside the deep sea; expensive research sampling is carried out in about 1 percent of this vast area, although 90 % of the ocean is below 200 meters.

Over time, as fisheries in shallow waters collapsed, the fishing industry began trying to the deep for brand new species to exploit. A few were found which can be marketed for human consumption, if renamed and filleted to be made more desirable, or processing into food pellets for poultry, though most deep-sea bass have flesh which is not palatable. These stocks were readily attacked using trawls large and heavy enough to attain as deep as 2,000 meters, and yes it took only 10 to 15 years to lower the goldfish biomass by about 80 percent.

This Year, vessels from eight E.U. countries landed 15,000 metric a great deal of four types of marketable deep-sea goldfish, which represents only .4 percent of Europe's pet fish haul. Several deep-sea striped bass species are poorly fertile (2 to 4 juveniles each year for that shark Centrophorus) and others reproduce for the first time when quite old (around 32 years). Most of them will be more biological curiosities than fishing stocks.

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There is no doubt that deep-sea animals are very different from those residing in shallow waters, which they grow and reproduce very slowly, and that they live for very long times in conditions where disturbance is rare. Even when large in size, they will likely never withstand the amount of disturbance caused by trawl gear, since most deep-sea animals are fragile and delicate. And it is obvious by the greater number of than 300 scientists worldwide who signed a declaration this form of fishing needs to be eliminated from the deep sea. Whatever their reasons, Europe's fishing

corporations along with their parliamentary allies -- the ''merchants of doubt'' -- are generating one final stand even in the face area of scientific consesus. But this time the doubters could have exhaust viable arguments.

Les Watling is professor of biology in the University of Hawaii at Manoa and co-editor of ''Functional Morphology and Diversity (Natural Reputation of the Crustacea).'' Gilles Boeuf is president in the Musum National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Paris, as well as a co-author of ''The Mediterranean Region: Biological Diversity in Space and Time.''