Google Earth reveals fish catch is 6 times greater than thought in Persian Gulf
▻http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1126-persian-gulf-fish-google-earth.html
“Because countries don’t provide reliable information on their fisheries’ catches, we need to expand our thinking and look at other sources of information and new technologies to tell us about what’s happening in our oceans.”
The findings, published in ICES Journal of Marine Science, provide another example of scientists using #Google_Earth for research. The tool has been used to discover a previously unknown reef off Australia; to document how mammals tend to align themselves in a north-south direction with the Earth’s magnetic field lines; to identify unexplored forests; and to map deforestation.
