ES290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marine Pollution, Atlantic Cod, Marine Protected Area
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Important resource globally, providing protein rich food sources for developing countries. Surrounded by the controversy of issues regarding resource depletion/ownership. Focus: factors that led to the decline of the east coast cod stocks, global sheries and whale. Lesson 9: fisheries species // text focus on the marine pollution + large scale disasters. Introduction of the water cycle: water: our most essential resources, a commodity, a renewable resource that has many users. Must abundant resource covering more than 70% of the earths surface (97% salt water, and of that 3% remaining 75% is in ice caps) Rivers and fresh lakes account for 0. 02% of the water // groundwater is 0. 58% Per capita withdrawals are higher in developed countries. Industrial/domestic use account for a larger portion in developed countries. Domestic water use is linked to advances in public health and improvements in quality of life with appliances such as dishwashers.
