marine wildlife. But we also show films that are how we engage with the ocean, and appreciate it, and have fun with it, from surfing, Our Marine Life Protection Act, the Monterey Bay Fair Lawns Natural Marine Sanctuaries, these don't exist in a lot of places around the country.
I mean it currently isn't, isn't it? not just to marine life , but in terms of plastic in the ocean than those plastic straws could ever cause.
How does it impact human life? How does it impact marine life ? How does it impact plankton?
trying to work on our agencies many many legal mandates for um improving protection for marine uh marine life and our mandates stretch from a lot of the things you saw references to uh in some ways and in in that we've we've passed
the protected area is about 110 square kilometers in size, it allowed fish to--to breed. It allowed all the marine life that had been fished out everywhere else to breed and grow. And as they bred and grew, they swam out and then the communities could each harvest the--the over spill if you like. We call it fish banks. So when we go out there we don't talk about
I'm almost mermaid. That same year, I went to Venezuela and became a dive master. I started taking pictures of marine life . I absolutely love the underwater world.
And we got about 500 different restaurant menus. And these menus were just teeming with marine life . But what was fascinating is, it wasn't always the same throughout time.
and doesn't have bottled water available for employees. So, I definitely commend Google on that. And the second thing that we came up with is to forgo the fish, which is to stop eating fish and other marine life . And the third thing that we came up with is for people to do number one and two, so that's to grab a bag and to forgo the fish and talk about these issues in conservation.
and on the island of Lesbos studying marine creatures, especially. Now, marine life is one of the most difficult to classify, because a lot of these creatures display some properties that seem like they belong to a plant and some that seem like they should belong to an animal.
And it really took forever, but it opened the border. I've had lots of close encounters with marine life .
And the cartels is going to move in. And they are going to basically destroy an extinct-- it will be extermination for all marine life there. Because they are looking for this totoaba.
offshore energy development that we can do um smartly we can that we can do in in the uh with pressures to do it very intelligently and thinking a lot about marine life um I think that those are the ways that we the messages that we've started to develop the most and make them place-based where people can start
And it really took forever, but it opened the border. Yeah? I'm wondering if you ever had any close encounters with marine life -- Oh, I've had-- --or interesting stories?
there, you still donít see very many people when you go. In addition to really nice reefs, thereís a lot of marine life here. This is a school of baitfish over a reef that looks what a reef looks like if youíre 20 feet away. So this is what everything looks like underwater until you light it. This was really cool.
I mean it currently isn't, isn't it? Like the plastic straw, the plastic straw is the villain of our time, because the damage it causes to fish and to marine life .
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And their balanced for a good reason. because the beaches are cleaner and it's better fishing, and there's no trash, and marine life survives.
Not only the getting off the beach and getting out into the ocean, but then they're essentially floating around in the middle of the ocean for a while in these convergent zones. So the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic is quite important, because a lot of marine life aggregates there in their developmental stages. And they're just going to float around there until they get to be about 20 or 25 centimeters.
There are also some places, again, along the coast, where the greatest amount of productivity is happening on the oceans, where 90 percent of marine life is existing in the coastal
So they took this shark onto the People Mover and set in on the floor. And it really is not designed for marine life , the People Mover. The shark was not doing well but it was still