Interview with Dr. Boris Worm, Marine Biologist, on Overfishing, Aquatic Ecosystems, Aquaculture Farming and More

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(NaturalNews) The following is a transcription of an exclusive interview with Dr. Boris Worm, Professor of Marine Biology at the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Novascotia. He's the author of the widely-read scientific paper entitled Author of: Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services (Science 3 November 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5800, pp. 787 - 790)

See our previous story containing the highlights of Dr. Boris Worm's important interview: http://www.naturalnews.com/025818.html

The original audio recording of this interview is available for download here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Po...

Mike: Hello and welcome everyone. This is Mike Adams, the Editor of NaturalNews.com, joined today by Dr. Boris Worm who's a Professor of Marine Biology at the Dow-Hauser University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He's the author of some very important, well-publicized papers talking about the delicacy of the web of life in the marine environment, and he joins us today to talk about that issue and maybe some things that we can do to help protect marine life. Thanks for joining us today Dr. Boris Worm; it's great to have you on. Can you give our listeners a bit of a background of your work and your training?

Dr. Worm: Sure, I'm a marine biologist. I studied Marine Biology and Biologic Oceanography back in Germany where I'm from originally, and about 10 years ago, I moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia where I still work today. I started being interested in ecology - so how the things in the ocean relate to the environment and to each other. About six, seven years into my studies I started to understand that you cannot really do this anymore without factoring humans in and the effects we're having on the ecosystems and on species in the marine realm.

My work more of became focusing on the impacts we're having on ocean species and their supporting ecosystems, and that's mostly what I'm doing today. I'm dealing with a range of impact – we're looking at fishing first and foremost, but also at the effects of changes in climate. I've done a lot of work on pollution as well and to some extent how these different factors interrelate and interact.

Mike: What's your overall "ah-ha" moment been in all of this? I mean was there a moment where you said, "Wow, people are greatly underestimating the intricacies and the complexities of marine biology?" Or what was that like for you?

Dr. Worm: Well there were several "ah-ha" moments. One was, there was a paper, which came out in 1997. It was called Human Domination of the Earth's Ecosystem… And they argued that now we're dominating a lot of the processes that shape ecosystems and life on Earth: for example, the fixation of nitrogen and the removal of biomass through forestry and agriculture and fishing and so on and a variety of other processes. And these have been running for a long time naturally, but now our impact is dominating these processes.

Then there were several others, I recall. When I was doing some exponential work in the Baltic Sea, I was doing a lot of diving and snorkeling, and I've seen lots of little critters. At some point, I just started wondering where all the big fish are and why I never ever see anything that's larger than about a few inches really. That was all that was there.

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