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Uses and Abuses of the Ocean

What do we do to it?

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Physical Resources

• Petroleum (oil spills)

• Natural Gas

• Sand/Gravel

• Salt

• Freshwater

• Ocean transportation (a little biological…too)

Slide 4 Fig 15-2, p.306

Oildrilling

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Oilplatforms

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Bad in the ocean…But worse on land?!

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Salt mining in California

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Chemical assault…

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PlanktonBloom off ofFlorida coast

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Biological Resources

• Fishing (commercial and recreational)

• Botanical Resources

• Aquaculture

• Biomedics

• Mariculture

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DeclineOfFisheriesInTheN. Atlantic

Slide 21 Fig. 15-8b, p. 310

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Outdated – check updates often!

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Korean fishing fleets dot the horizon

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Oystermariculture

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The good People

• Rachel Carson

• Cousteau

• Carl Safina

• Sylvia Earl

• Scuba Divers/Marine Conservations

• Educators

• You???

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Other Problems?

• What are the PROBLEMS with so many people living so closely and using the ocean so much???

• …to “Problems” lecture…