On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:09 AM, M V Bhaskar <bhaskarmv...@gmail.com> wrote:
snip > > Fertilizing the oceans to restore fisheries is NOT prohibited, that is why > the Haida Salmon Restoration Project is perfectly legal. I hope you are right. There is a bit of a question there. I suppose as long as they are doing it to increase the Salmon catch and not for geoengineering it's legal. > They are on the > right path, I hope more people do similar projects. I hope so too. > Deep sea fishing fleets go out with empty holds and return with the holds > full of fish. > They can easily carry Iron for fertilization and empty these in the fishing > areas, before they start to fish. Agree with you. It's something that could be done without governments because the ratio of the cost of iron to the value of what they get back is so high. Social pressure might be enough to get people to do it and not just freeload on others. > Regards > > Bhaskar > > > On Sunday, 22 June 2014 14:58:31 UTC+5:30, andrewjlockley wrote: >> >> Approx 100MT annual catch >> Approx 1 part in 100000 is iron >> Therefore need to replace 1000t iron pa into ocean ecosystems. But iron >> isn't a limiting nutrient everywhere, so perhaps far less. >> >> Should boats be tipping NPK fertiliser over the side, too? Far larger >> volumes are required. These are not often limiting. >> Marine reserves are likely a better way to protect ecosystems. This isn't protecting ecosystems, this is just fertilizing the ocean to increase the fish catch. Should not have been painted as geoengineering in the first place. Best wishes, Keith >> A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
