Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Blame Canada...

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Today in class we discussed Ocean floor trawling. This is a short non-scientific video to describe the situation with the UN and the moratorium regarding trawling. Unfortunately, the video targets Canada as a major flaw in the plan in a sense that the country was trying to block the moratorium. However, in November of 2006, this was changed, says the video.

I found it interesting that Canada was targeted in such a way, because as a Canadian I had little knowledge of this subject before seeing the video.

An interesting point that I found out while searching the video, however, was that each year on the Ocean floors, an area approximately the size of the United States is trawled and destroyed. That's huge!

1 comment:

CBEMN said...

What a great find and great post, Michelle! I am going to show this to the class!
Cathy