Dec 23, 2018 02:00 AM
And such aquatic invasions never happened during the great tsunamis of past centuries and millennia due to what? Not a sufficient amount of junk and debris from destroyed communities to ride with, compared to this era?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...81086.html
EXCERPT: . . . The barred knifejaw, a black and white striped fish, has been seen several times in Monterey Bay, just south of San Francisco, since 2014. But the species is unheard of in the waters surrounding the coasts of the United States and is native to Japan, Korea and China, more than 5,200 miles away.
Scientists believe the only way the fish could have completed the epic journey across the Pacific is by being carried across by debris washed out to sea by the devastating 2011 Japanese tsunami. [...] fields of rubbish and debris often become havens for marine wildlife [...] because they imitate the conditions of kelp forests.
As the slow-moving ocean currents in the Pacific slowly dragged detritus from Japan west across the ocean towards America, fish like the barred knifejaw are thought to have moved with it...
MORE: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...81086.html
RELATED: Scientists still worry about species tsunami swept from Japan to Oregon
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...81086.html
EXCERPT: . . . The barred knifejaw, a black and white striped fish, has been seen several times in Monterey Bay, just south of San Francisco, since 2014. But the species is unheard of in the waters surrounding the coasts of the United States and is native to Japan, Korea and China, more than 5,200 miles away.
Scientists believe the only way the fish could have completed the epic journey across the Pacific is by being carried across by debris washed out to sea by the devastating 2011 Japanese tsunami. [...] fields of rubbish and debris often become havens for marine wildlife [...] because they imitate the conditions of kelp forests.
As the slow-moving ocean currents in the Pacific slowly dragged detritus from Japan west across the ocean towards America, fish like the barred knifejaw are thought to have moved with it...
MORE: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...81086.html
RELATED: Scientists still worry about species tsunami swept from Japan to Oregon
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