A turtle at rest, Kona Coast. In 1996 Marine Biologist tagged a young female loggerhead turtle named Adelitha and
released her off the coast of Mexico. She made it to the nesting grounds of the shores of Japan. What this did was prove the
circulatory migration pattern of that species and many others and illustrate “Connection through the Commons”.
Former head of the Ca State Lifeguards, Jim Birdsoul holds
a 100-pound Yellowfin Tuna caught off Kona, Hawaii.
Tuna which are at the top of the food chain are notorious
for biosequestering of heavy metals. Last year
Jean Michel Cousteau and I were talking about the
Nuclear disaster and how it potentially could
save the endangered Bluefin Tuna by making
it unfit for human consumption. But the
acceptable contamination level was
altered by the USG and raised.
Kona Coast dive.
When the Apollo astronauts
looked back on Earth from space
it appeared as a blue marble
hanging in the firmament. When
we as an ocean people, look back
on the land, our perspective is
equally as: grand, valuable and
related. Sea and space, they
do connect in many ways.
A bountiful meal
of clams and oysters.
Filter feeders are lower in the food chain
and some of the first to acquire uptake
of contaminants within an impacted
marine or estuarial ecosystem.
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