http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/fish-stories-the-ones-that-got-away-3914/ Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/fish-stories-the-ones-that-got-away-3914/#comment-214 Helms Greg Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:19:08 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/03/02/fish-stories-the-ones-that-got-away/#comment-214 This article illuminates "shifting baselines" -- the concept that declining ocean abundance and health are accepted because each generation defines what is acceptable ocean health by what they see and experience, despite how their elders would see current condition for what they are--a shadow of former bounty. Right now in southern California, work is underway to restore and rebuild historic abundance in the sea by establishing under water havens analogous to national parks -- marine protected areas set aside from harvest -- through an initiative called the Marine Life Protection Act. See www.caloceans.org. This article illuminates “shifting baselines” — the concept that declining ocean abundance and health are accepted because each generation defines what is acceptable ocean health by what they see and experience, despite how their elders would see current condition for what they are–a shadow of former bounty. Right now in southern California, work is underway to restore and rebuild historic abundance in the sea by establishing under water havens analogous to national parks — marine protected areas set aside from harvest — through an initiative called the Marine Life Protection Act. See http://www.caloceans.org.

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