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After rising steadily for 25 years, the world fish catch dropped 2% last year, the first decrease in 25 years. The loss represented $160 million. Worse, it suggested that ocean harvesting-one of the great hopes for curbing world hunger-may be endangered by ocean pollution.
In Rome last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization tackled the problem by inviting 400 scientists from 40 maritime nations to discuss man's abuse of the seas. The biggest and most important such conference to date produced more than 140 papers describing the danger. For example...
Mercury and Oil. Bruce McDuffie, a bearded chemist at the State University of New York at Binghamton, is the man who recently discovered mercury in U.S. canned tuna (TIME, Dec. 21). In Rome, he reported also finding high mercury levels in commercial swordfish. Reason: according to an American paper presented...
Dr. Max Blumer of Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution told the conference that "major catastrophes in production and at sea, unburned fuel, spent lubricants, and a significant hydrocarbon contribution from the land [municipal wastes] contribute about 10 million tons of oil to the world's oceans each year." According...
Global Watch. The scientists underlined Blumer's hard-hitting report, and scores of others, by recommending an immediate international survey to measure the extent and degree of marine pollution. They also urged establishment of a global monitoring system.