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I "VTl , 0. <9059 S. 3J.S71 >0 * r+\ O <A Z o AUG 1 5 1971 Says By STAN BENJAMIN . AwdM Plw Writer ' WASHLVGTON <AP> - Mm It pomamg the see. method ically polluting seven-teams ot fee world Md slaughtering fax-fifths of oil Itviag Duty*. By regards* * oceans t an uieriiaustibie source of food oo the ooe land, art a if satiable sinks for bit mta on the other, he is threetentog turn the sea into deserts. Some scientists believe c*tsttrophe is only a nutter of tine, "to a very fre years *e are going to have a mot uif pieuant swakening." n't famed explorer Jacques Costeou. ho estimates on the hois of his own undersea ob servations that ocean life has decreased by 4* per cent m the last 30 years. Other scientists say the di ' mensicm of the danger are u> known. "Most scientists in this bdd are very much concerned aod realise we den t know a damn thng about it. ' aid Phil ip Butler, a leading name tooiopst. m an intervieo. there is no way to support of disprove Corteau s estimate No ene measured the ocean life V years ao: no one a doing it ne "We scientist?" serf envkx- t* Geage M Woodwdl of BraoWaven National Labors1r>. ' are put 0n|i tNr t*w t ceme across aa> real jvnof. But m> |ue% is that Cosieau is gead ngh " Bww fast do mas j pumas plead' Ho* muri dnewer will they do' How tang caa the man making seas "poisoned cesspools" sea meet maos ever mertasini denund for feed? These are questtens for which saadists have an answers, but they do know the potsaa are greeting The douge ha alrody begin: -Forty-tune persona died ta Japan from eatmg firti poi soned with industrial mercury. --As epidemic of infections hepatitis was started by Shell fish caught in sewage cm taminstud New York waters. --Fish-killing "red Me" orgamsas, believed to be trigRered by polluttsn. have sick ened people through coaiact or seafood. --The btaUi* near indestrialaed area of tone substances i a c 1 a d i a g cancer-Muemi agents such as DOT. "hss reached fngMerang yroportioas.'' according te B. W. Hal stead. director of the World Life Research Inatitute. `There is oo longer an; ques tion that these materials art entering man s marine food re sources.'* he Ibid an nleraational conference oa prtbitxw last November. Poilubon is only part of the problem. To meet the demand lor fre* fish, die fudierman n ranging farmer and farther from his home wmers. casting a wUer aet aod still hading is smaller catches. The world*rte catch f iirti and torllfirti, tlitr treoiui* :n the la* 31 tears, derimed for the fust nme in IMS fbui*!rl Whittaker. economic wi-m-t far the Naiioaai Marine Fihv enes Service. said 'he cairn >ncrcatad agam to Ufa. hoi only "A groat many fish have just about reached dteir lint.'' Whittaker said in an interview. "The haddock off our wnhaa coast have been overfished. Countries that fish tfat area are oow abiding by a ports, but they really rttouid stop entirely for a couple of years. The had dock are in danger of tenuring extinct. We re tat sure that are enough left to reproduce themselves." Other species also are embngeted- "Yeilowtail flounder off the northeast are right oo the verge of being overfished.'' Whittaker said. 'The countries have agreed on a quota. There is a quota on tuna in die east ern tropics] Pacific Ocean I wouldn't be surprised if we have quota soon on cod and perch. Lobsters in dw Untied States aod Canada are just al ''Previously,'' said Whittaker, "the fisheries were under utilized. Now were on the verge of depicting die re source." "Overfishing * letts only a fraction of the story. CantamumuoR is startmg is make eagerly-bunted fish unfit Is he eaten the US. Pood and On* Ad ministrate* i-loMd sheltti* beds m Bninwrt Bay. <Ja aid Pnri Lavaca Bay. Trs, last >rar because of merrvry i-nntamiMtM from (atierw? I- i--k impirird .wnrutisb off thr L' S. mrhr. because if mercury e can baa im ports." PDA regulator Richard Rook said. "We are not able to handle the' domestic catch the same way Semure is almost impomibti wife the manpowo- Altor hepatitis outbreaks, die FDA buwad sheUfatmg tV ocemi off Raritan Bay. where dw New York area dumps its sewage sludge, and off the Delaware Bay, nriluliil[dii'i tlifogt dump. TV PDA 6d seize some Pa cific Coast mackerel. dangereurty high ua DDT. but it let gone by the time du analysis "We cast take it off the mar ket after it's seid because the product Ims lost its tdwtity in the marketplace.'* he said, raft oiL for example, ends up ia vitamin ^eparatiens. The efforts of overfisking were dramatically illustrated by ike wkaling industry, which long ago all bet desvoved it self. along'wkk the earth's largest mantmais. As for die problem of ronfammatioo. Ike dangtrs were dearly outlined in Japan when methyl mercury killed prr- BtT CAN mm raie al dm oceaae of the earth' Ceotea mys flatly. "The oceana are dymg while aocsety anapu - an eotrirh pokey " "We da art wuh m faow," he said. "We do not wish to mder- staod We Vnger." Industrial chemicals. oiL raw sewage, pestitides and machin ery's bad breath brought to earth by rainfall, already have killed er crippled the Me of streams. riv* and takes. Bui the ocean? Hut's where dm polluted riv en flow. The oceoe. said Hal stead. is "the final ceaepaal of most of mm's activities." TV estuaries, where river meets sea. are already heavily pofluted. TVy are alee the eptwmag growds of mu* ma rine life. Butler ha reported evidence that DOT killed dtrin* in Texai estuaries, blocked the re production of speckled trout off the Texas Coast, md may be reducing Dungenesr crabs off Cahfortaa. DDT. a chemical invoemd te kill insects on farmland, ha been found in Arctic seals and Antarctic penguins. Woodweil doubts that polhitiro could kill ail ocean hfe: his fear is that it could w*a out thr higher forms. "I estimate ' he aaid. "that the earth's biota 'lite farms! probably contain less bua onethirteenth of one year's world production of DDT. at the pro demon level of the isaa* "1 further eviinuie that if ooe years producim xm into tb- Mrta. it would be rorogh lo rtrtice the earth i the tame anucture <d euTroAx >nvr '' Rv ihai he nieitn* lie ine-*(>le of * stamunt lake Otty a smati pert >4 'he DOT praduied se lar bus reartad Ike tea. are port by Ac National Academy ot Soeoees oiimaied this year. If pro duetioa stepped comptoteiy, three times u muck DOT ntigbt still be on its way U S. chemKxl compacies re pertory produce more than 1* ramies pounds of DOT pw year It is estimated to hot. ia nature, anyvbere from H to * years. (Mur pesticides, suck a diefdrin. en*in. heptochlor epo xide. and benaaa bmochlondes, are tunilarty long-last ing. So are ifac Arakairial diemicals called^Qk^^ishlorioaied bipheaylsi now found worldwide and ranked by seme setorsisto a ocean pollutant second eniy to DOT. So sunilor are *e two chenokals. in fort, that the Food and Drug Admaistratioci routinely lests firti only for DDT. If d finds DDT. die agency figures so equl amount of PCB raua bo praam. MnrtwiU Chetncal Cb. the only aunufacturer of PCB* ia die Defied States, refuses "for competitive reasons ' io revert how much is being produced- Maavbile. the pouaoalg of the sm continues. TV L'nrtea States dumped ft million tons of ns wastes otto lie sea m 19a inriixhtig at Irax U million tans of polluted nudge. Such slude ha killed ainmq every living thmg on the oitm flonr m Itiequaro mile area rtf .New Yore Fung kMtini u* man ad OsokoI rtaefcargrt are kiUiag the bottom of Tokyo Bay and ^aduolly dtokbtg die life out of the Baltic Sea and per haps the Medilejruicau. Soeotisto estunote that man is adding a bafi-milUso diflerent wibstonca to the sm. TV lates to draw attentia vat re ported las Norembes after a of dead plankton along 71 naies of the Atlantic. TV taller appeared to be a alMiatic bydrecarboa'' tbe wota of piantic manufac turing. Tbe researrti ship re ported "strong indications that tthis chemical) originates from industries on both sides of Ike AtiarUc Ocean. " Planktoo are die mxroeccpfc plants and annuls at die very foundation of the ocean's food 79 per cent of tbe earth s oxy gen. TTwee Scottish scientist; have reported that p.ankioe umpitngs 30 feet deep over 8 years rttowed "a non dramatic de cline ... m tbe AUaffix a well a the North Sea." TVy dffit know whet Hut moans, er wen wtwihrr it What man knows is that h# i, ponwung |M *ea and its (,% mg duos. mat know