Barbara Block, professor of marine sciences at Stanford University, says, “We don’t like to tell anyone we’re ignorant about the oceans, but we are.”
A 10-year project by an international research team is set to count the marine creatures in the northern Pacific ocean in the world’s first marine life census.
Electronic tracking devices will be used to log the movements of whales, seals, turtles, birds fish and squid.
The scientists, numbering more than 60, met in California to consider which creatures to track and the costs of such an exercise. In the years 2002 to 2005 thousands of sea creatures will be tagged and monitored.
People will be able to see the data for themselves when it is retrieved from the tracking devices and made available on the Internet.
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