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Ocean Acidification

• Acid dissolves calcium things
• When the ocean becomes more acidic, it becomes harder for coral and such to create shells.

Film - “End of the Line”

• Canada had a lot of cod
• Canadians did a lot of fishing
• Cod are endangered now, no more fishing.

• too few cod to re-bound, population will be low for forseeable future

• Global fish catching has been going down since 1988

• discovered in 2002, china fudging numbers.

• Bluefin tuna catch down 80%
• scientists advise 15k catch
• gov allows 30k
• actually catching 60k
• enforcement of the law nowhere to be seen

Mitsubishi

• controls 60% of the market
• holding frozen tuna
  • in the event of extinction, this reserve becomes gold.