Invasive Species Find a New Way to Sail the 7 Seas Jon Bowermaster - TakePart
go to original July 12, 2013

Garbage Island in the Pacific Ocean - Digging into it! (TRUTHS2012)

Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) love to latch themselves onto the hulls of boats, go for long rides across oceans and take up new lives in foreign waters where they are usually very unwelcome. The global spread of Asian carp, zebra mussels and thousands of other species who have hitched themselves around the world in just such a manner have proven themselves unwanted guests, impossible to disinvite.

They are not usually picky about the vessel, attaching themselves to everything from tankers moving petroleum or cars and containers, to rubber Zodiacs delivering tourists to remote Antarctic and deserted island shores.

Now a new form of transport has been identified for the world’s wandering bugs, in those giant, floating plastic patches that have created dead zones in each of the five oceans. Defined as being “as big as Texas or New Jersey,” these floating plastic trash heaps trapped in gyres of ocean current are proving to be perfect ways for ever smaller microbacteria to move around the globe.

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