Ocean Pasture Restoration 2002 with BBC
Time flies while having fun.
Or trying to save the world!
Working to Bringing Back The Fish
Back in 2002 I entertained some BBC radio producers on my sailing ship on the coast of California to give an interview about how ocean pasture restoration with natural rock dust might replenish and restore the world’s ocean pastures and Bring Back The Fish. It has taken me most of a lifetime of working on this methodology and trying to convince the world we must become Good Shepherds of our ocean pastures before it is too late. Sadly there is an endless supply of armchair pundit narcissists always present to sow discord against any idea that is not theirs without regard to the mayhem they foment upon Nature.
Just recently I was contacted by the BBC for a return engagement radio interview nearly 20 years after their featuring me on their radio show ‘Costing the Earth.’ I wasn’t disappointed 20 years ago with the BBC treatment on the radio, but reflecting back today I have to wonder whether their ‘fence-sitting’ posture was the right thing for the BBC to do. They had after all faithfully allowed me to present the urgent need for ocean pasture restoration, but alas had trotted out the obligatory narcissistic pundits to ‘balance’ and defuse my one-sided case for getting on with restoring and saving this blue planet.
I plan to ask the BBC in this next radio show, how has their position of fence-sitting worked out for this blue planet of ours, have things gotten better or worse?
Maybe this time they will offer a more unabashed and unreserved helping hand to promote the almost too late vital need for ocean pasture restoration.
Here’s a link to listen to that BBC radio show from the Spring of 2002.
A few weeks after that BBC interview I was under weigh on an open ocean research effort 1500 miles to the west in the Pacific ocean testing and studying my ocean pasture restoration ideas and formulations.
Here’s a video of the action.
Then after even more time passes by, a decade, in fact, my lifelong dream of actually completing really significant work to restore Nature on this Blue Planet finally came to pass.
In 2012 I managed to complete the largest ocean restoration effort in history with my nature-based red rock dust prescription to restore the famous Haida Eddy in the Gulf of Alaska.
Action on the deck of the Ocean Pearl during my 2021 Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation ocean pasture replenishment project.
Did It Work?
The chart below took a long time coming though welcome even after so much time when published in the spring of 2020 by the State of Alaska Fish and Game department. It provides unquestionable proof that with OPR (ocean pasture restoration) we can restore ocean pastures to historic health and abundance and in doing so Bring Back The Fish.
Let the narcissistic pundits howl their anti-social discord, the data speaks the truth!
