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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedWhat's going on down there? 2,000 ocean scientists do the biggest, wettest census ever
Science News, Feb 17, 2007 by Susan Milius
Cruises like the ones that turned up these creatures will continue through 2008, explains D'Or. Then, the census participants are scheduled to put together their findings into a report due in 2010.
They hope that all this new research will help humanity shepherd changing ocean resources. That's always been a challenge, says D'Or. He recalls a fisheries manager summing up the difficulty: "Fisheries management is like forestry management--except that everything moves and you can't see it."
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