Shrimp season stopped cold

• It's cold enough out there to kill even shrimp.
• The state will pull the plug on the fall season of commercial shrimping at 7 tonight, nearly two weeks earlier than it did last year
• The protective mode step was taken to save as many shrimp as possible to spawn for the spring season.
• Shrimp, sea trout and other marine life can die off in mass kills when water temperatures hover around the mid-40s for any length of time.
• Charleston Harbor water temperature was 47 degrees, and weekend air temperatures were expected to be among the lowest of the season.
• We're starting to get the heebie-jeebies. When the water gets down to about 47 degrees, conditions start getting dicey
• In the winter of 2000-01, prolonged water temperatures at about 46 degrees destroyed an estimated 97 percent to 99 percent of the shrimp population, and shrimpers qualified for federal disaster assistance.
• But regulators and shrimpers say the surge likely is occurring because shrimp are moving to the more protective deeper ocean waters as the water gets colder. Once they get far into the ocean, they disperse widely.
• shrimpers say the surge likely is occurring because shrimp are moving to the more protective deeper ocean waters as the water gets colder
• The fishery shuts itself down about this time of year anyway, as shrimp start dispersing and catches are too small to be worth burning the fuel to go after, shrimpers and regulators say.
  
  response:
  I cant believe that it is the water is cold enough to kill the shrimp. Why would the state close the shrimp business if they want to try to save the shrimp why would they close it next week or something. when the water gets to the colder tempter the shrimp will start to die because it is to cool.46 degrees destroyed an estimated 97 percent to 99 percent of the shrimp population, and shrimpers qualified for federal disaster assistance that could be really bad. but one bad thing about the shrimping season closing early is that the fishermen who fish them will go broke if they can't fish.
  

Investigators Analyze Plastic Soup in World's Five Oceanic Gyressea dragon set off for adventure with a team of scientist for a journey to save animal
notes:

• plastic food and water containers, toys, plastic bags, six-pack rings, condoms, fishing lines and nets discarded on land or at sea float and whirl endlessly, breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces but never completely disappearing.
• 22 species of marine mammals are harmed or killed by plastic waste
• the scientist that went on the boat have been reporting to the Americans in conferencing
• this pollution of plastic is not just happening in the U.S it is happening in other countries
• Theirs is not the first effort to document plastic debris in the oceans of the world, but it is the first to include all of the world's five major oceanic gyres.
• A 2006 Greenpeace report that focused on the North Pacific concluded that 80 percent of marine debris is from land-based sources and the remaining 20 percent is from ocean based sources.
• The boat we are on is a 72 foot, steel hulled racing sloop called the Sea Dragon, provided by Pangaea Explorations
• Eriksen crossed the North Pacific again, from Long Beach, California to Hawaii, on the Junk, a boat he and Cummins built from 15,000 plastic bottles contained in recycled fishing nets
  Response:
  
  I think it was a very interest to learn the many different object they are finding in the ocean. such as plastic food and water containers, toys, plastic bags, six-pack rings, condoms, fishing lines and nets. all of this stuff is killing the fish and there environments. the team of scientist that have set out on this report is reporting back that twenty two percent of the marine mammals are harmed or killed by plastic waste they were reporting this in a conferences all around the countries and that is a lot of animals that are being harmed. the 72 foot sea dragon that they went on was very good for the type of weather they faced i also thought that it was a really cool boat they way they explained it.