Deseret News | Oceans need our protection, author-explorer tells Utahns

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Oceans need our protection, author-explorer tells Utahns

CP | 2:34 a.m. Jan. 23, 2009

I totally agree. IF those of us feel sick with all the inversion that has been in the air we breathe, what about the ocean life and all the pollutants that get dumped in their home. And not to metion all the people who kill off more fish then they need and then endanger the other marine life in the process. And what upsets me more are those who go after sharks and slice off their fins and then jsut dump them back in the ocean to suffer and die a slow death. It's terrible!

vaase | 10:09 a.m. Jan. 23, 2009

Every thing to be done in mderation and common sense, not to overblown on one side, their is always two sides to a story or it is also called check and balance....not doom and gloom and scare tactics, by some class-room scientists want to be.

James | 11:16 a.m. Jan. 23, 2009

From reading this I never again will throw anything into Salt Lake Bay!

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Jake S. | 11:22 a.m. Jan. 23, 2009

Please tell us the other side of the story then, vaase. Her side is that over-fishing and pollution threaten ocean ecosystems and the health of the planet, and that we are at a critical stage now to fix the problem. What is the moderate, non-doom-and-gloom alternative? What is your non-scary, non-classroomy solution?

CP | 11:46 a.m. Jan. 23, 2009

To vaase: There isn't a non-scary solution. And it is a gloom and doom situation NOW and has been for quite sometime. It's just that people have ignored it. Well, it's time to stop ignoring the facts. And people need to start caring. So if the expert is wrong - then tell me what's your solution besides just sitting back and doing nothing? There is no alternative you want quality air then take care of the planet and that includes the oceans and it's marine life.

IT'S MUCH TOO LATE | 2:52 p.m. Jan. 23, 2009

LOOK HOW YOU HAVE TRASHED THIS OLD SEA BED ..NOW EARTH QUAKE AWAITS U!!

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A white-blotched river stingray hovers on the bottom of a tank at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. The fresh-water stingray is one of the new creatures on display.