Survey: Would not a more impressive miracle be to have your disciples cast a fishing net in the middle of a?

Sep 13, 2008 by Pocket Protectorate | Posted in Polls & Surveys

...desert sand dune miles from the ocean, and have the net come back with a bunch of floppy fish? Or maybe feed an entire crowd of people with one sunflower seed?

(Just wondering...no funny stuff intended...this is a very serious philosophical

Aren't there frogs who bury themselves in the desert and come out when the flood season comes through? Their heart beats once a minute and yada yada yada. I wouldn't eat frogs though. Then again I won't eat fish either so either way I'd die. Meg

Miss Feasance | Sep 13, 2008

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World Ocean Day: Special Report

by NNT

The World Ocean Day first came into being during the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.

Since then the World Ocean Network and alliances have been working together to campaign and educate people worldwide through various forms of media.

The group also joins with international organizations and institutes to organize activities, creating and increasing awareness on marine conservation.

It was only last year that the United Nations General Assembly designated 8 June as the World Ocean Day, and that the official international celebration took place for the first time.

According to a report of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), in 2007, an estimate of 2,920 tons of rubbish is dumped into the ocean every year; 89% of this is plastics. There are around 46,000 pieces of plastic trash per square mile of ocean – that is 3 times as many as the number of fish caught.

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Gray whale tangled in Dana Point Harbor is freed
Los Angeles Times - May 13, 2010
Gray whale tangled in Dana Point Harbor is freed The animal, caught in a tangle of fishing nets and other gear, is cut free by rescuers and makes for the open ocean. By Kate Linthicum, It

World Oceans Day to be celebrated
TCPalm - Jun 05, 2010
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Gulf, fisheries, and death: already low bluefin tuna stocks to suffer
San Antonio Current (blog) - Jun 08, 2010
While fishing families along the Gulf are in for a world of hurt from the still-spreading BP oil spill — as are the crabs, shrimp, and redfish they depend

Argentine Hake On the Brink of Collapse
Inter Press Service - Jun 08, 2010
Even faced with the decline in fishstocks, the fishing companies have refused to use devices that would let smaller fish escape the nets, he said.

Oil may stay away from area
St. Augustine Record - Jun 05, 2010
He said a fisherman catching shrimp offshore might never see a slick of oil but might drag his nets through a stream of dispersant and unwittingly pollute