Re: Learn To Eat Toxic Algae

Are the Robots that are more compashionate than humans almost ready ?
Sorry ! I 'bin watch'in that Will Smith movie.

Glow Sticks May Lure Sea Turtles to Death
Helen Scales
for National Geographic News

April 27, 2007
The same glow sticks that lighten up raves and Halloween may be
tempting thousands of sea turtles to their deaths, a new study says.

Used to attract fish to hooks on miles-long lines, the lights are
apparently also irresistible to the reptiles.

Commercial longline fishing operations are known to contribute to the
decline of sea turtle populations.

Now researchers say that simply changing the type of light sticks
could perhaps reduce the number of accidentally caught turtles.

The study is the first to demonstrate that sea turtles are attracted
to the lights used by commercial longliners to lure swordfish and
tuna. The paper appears in this month's issue of the journal Animal
Conservation.

"Once the turtles are in the vicinity of the longlines, there's a high
chance they will bite on the bait and become snagged," said study co-
author John Wang of the University of Hawaii. "They can also get
entangled in the fishing lines."

In 2000 alone, an estimated 200,000 loggerhead turtles and 50,000
leatherbacks were killed on longlines, according to the report. The
World Conservation Union lists both species as
endangered. .......................

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