[FREE REPORT] Restoring Life to a Dying Oceanby Rosa Domingos | 02-08-2019 17:41 |
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 The Kamchatca Kuril Islands¡¯ Raikoke volcano erupted on the longest day of the year, 22 June 2019. Raikoke volcano very rarely erupts. The two most recent prior eruptions were in 1924 and 1778. The volcano¡¯s most recent eruption began at 4:00 a.m. on June 22, 2019, as a vast plume of ash and volcanic gases shot up from this sleeping giant. Many satellites (as well as astronauts on the International Space Station) observed as a thick dust cloud rose nearly 16 Km into the air and then streamed east as it was pulled into the circulation of a storm in the North Pacific. Will its iron-rich ash, now falling on the North Pacific, be manna from heaven for all of ocean life? The dust will convert the dying clear blue ocean desert into a flourishing garden of Eden and billions of baby fish that were sure to starve will now be treated to a feast (Earth911, 2019)!  Volcanic plume from the Raikoke volcano (Earth911, 2019). Heavy ash falling from the eruption has already spread over 30,000-50,000 square kilometers (Km2) of the western Pacific. This ash fall could not have come at a better time nor in a better place to assist the many species of salmon that spawn in the rivers of far eastern Russia. The far northern summer growing season has just started. And now their ocean pastures are almost certain to respond to the mineral-rich ash. They will become a spectacular and long-lived ocean pasture bloom of plankton.  (Earth911, 2019).  VOLCANIC ASH CARRIES IRON THAT IS MISSING IN THE SEA, FEEDING OCEAN PASTURES, MAKING THEM RICH AND GREEN. THAT LUSH GREEN PLANKTON IS MADE OF CO2 SCRUBBED OUT OF THE AIR BY PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND MADE INTO OCEAN PLANT LIFE (Earth911, 2019). Billions of baby salmon that have hatched and reared in the rivers are just now making their way out of the Okhotsk Sea into the vast North Pacific Ocean pastures. The question of whether they starve or survive is dependent on the plankton blooms. But this year, instead of mostly starving, they will have an abundance in resource! Mother Nature is doing what she can to sustain her oceans. At times, her blessed help comes in the form of volcanoes that explode with the power of a thousand H-bombs. Volcanoes like the one erupting along Russia¡¯s North Pacific coast have at times been Pacific salmon¡¯s saviors. Raikoke is just such a miracle of nature. It is sending its life-giving dust at just the right time and place (Earth911, 2019). This brought the return of a return of sockeye not at near-extinction levels, but in numbers equal to the largest returns of salmon in all of history. Those fish survived and thrived as abundant dusted ocean pastures and plankton repurposed hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into new life in the oceans. It was an inspiring moment (Earth911, 2019)!  Sockeye Salmon Specie (Earth911, 2019). SOURCES: eARTH 911. 2019. Russian Volcano Brings Life to North Pacific Ocean Pastures. [Online]. Available: https://earth911.com/inspire/volcano-brings-life-to-ocean-pastures/. July 17, 2019. Accessed: 2 August 2019. |
