Perhaps some good news on our environment

New research suggests that 95% of the fish live in the central ocean, which were previously considered deserts.

Let's hope this is true.

   "Prof Duarte says research into the five ocean gyres, where vast amounts of flotsam collect, turned up surprising results.

"We actually called them oceanic deserts," he says.

"They are not desert at all, they are very vibrant ecosystems that support a very high biomass.

"The largest fish stock in the ocean is not in the coastal areas … but actually in the central gyres of the oceans.

"The food web … in the central gyres of the ocean … it's a lot more efficient than we thought."

He says the survey also showed the oceans were healthier than previously thought.

"This very large stock of fish that we have just discovered, that holds 95 per cent of all the fish biomass in the world, is untouched by fishers," he says.

"They can't harvest them with nets.

"In the 21st Century we have still a pristine stock of fish which happens to be 95 per cent of all the fish in oceans.

"And that also changes our views on ocean health."