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Federal Study Expected to Say Our Oceans Are in Peril.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
By Craig Welch, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--The last major government report on the state of the oceans, in 1969, urged Congress to ramp up exploitation of the seas to harness untapped food and riches.
The first new federal study of oceans in 35 years will suggest we did so, with alarming efficiency.
Next month, a report from a panel appointed by President Bush is expected to paint a stark picture of oceans in trouble, and will call for sweeping new oversight measures to reverse decades of ecological decline in marine waters.
"We have major problems," said Andrew Rosenberg, dean of life sciences and agriculture at the University of New Hampshire, and a member of the president's U.S....
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