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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:44 PM Aug 2020

'They just pull up everything!' Chinese fleet raises fears for Galpagos sea life

Jonathan Green had been tracking a whale shark named Hope across the eastern Pacific for 280 days when the satellite transmissions from a GPS tag on her dorsal fin abruptly stopped.

It was not unusual for the GPS signal to go silent, even for weeks at a time, said Green, a scientist who has been studying the world’s largest fish for three decades in the unique marine ecosystem around the Galápagos Islands.

But then he looked at satellite images in the area where Hope was last tracked – more than a thousand nautical miles west of the islands – and noticed the ocean was being patrolled by hundreds of Chinese fishing boats.

“I began to look into it and found that at the very end of her track she began to speed up,” said Green, co-founder and director of the Galápagos Whale Shark Project.

“It went from one knot to six or seven knots for the last 32 minutes – which is, of course, the speed of a fishing boat,” he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/just-pull-everything-chinese-fleet-093004946.html

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'They just pull up everything!' Chinese fleet raises fears for Galpagos sea life (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Man this makes me sick to think about ... mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #1
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