Kelp Forests are ecological ghost towns. Whales and dolphins drown in nets. Fish populations are plummeting. Poaching is big business. Pollutants swirl near shore.
Surfers suffer viral diseases.
Fish sprout tumors and sea lions have cancer. One species of abalone is near extinction. On land there would be outrage. At sea, few even notice. The sobering twelve page special report entitled Pacific Blues published in the Sacramento Bee December 1996 continues with hard evidence from the author's travels, documents and interviews with more than 200 people.