[BRIEF NOTE] Conservation

[rfmcdonald]

rollobay23
Originally uploaded by rfmcdpei

The spit of land in the middle of the picture--land, only in low tide, actually--once hosted a dense population of mussels, well-suited for the relatively warm, sheltered, and nutrient-rich waters of Rollo Bay. At one point in the mid-1990s, a group of people found the spit and, in the space of the month, destroyed the mussel population.

Experiences like that make me think that high fuel prices, already cause for fishers' protests in Spain and Ireland and Tasmania and Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, might be a good thing for the fish and crustaceans and other edible marine life out there.