I must have been living under a rock, as I missed the entire story back in the day. I had to google it up. Quite interesting, and like everything else do your own investigating as there's always to sides to a story (2 sides to a dollar bill too, follow the money I always say...)
Absolutely. And it cost a lot of money to "seed" the ocean. You can bet this isn't being considered out of altruistic motives.
As quoted in an article out of BC in April 2016:
One prominent scientist who agreed to provide advice is Ricardo Letelier of Oregon State University,
Letelier said in an interview that he supports the scientific goals of the project but has concerns over the commercial applications and the way the experiment rolls out. There also needs to be an agreement among the scientific community about how these findings can be used, he said.
"These kinds of experiments, if they are well done, can provide a lot of advancement in our understanding of the complexities of ecosystem dynamics in the open ocean," said Letelier, who is originally from Chile.
"You cannot really do them without addressing the fundamental question of why you're doing this. If you're doing it for commercial purposes then I think you are doing it for the wrong reasons."
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The real fear is that this is being driven for purely monetary gain for commercial fisheries. And by artificially increasing yield and thus harvest, it sets up the entire ecosystem for a catastrophic disaster if (when) something goes wrong.
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