Name: 【TED】安瑞克沙拉: 我們來把公海轉變為世界上最大的自然保護區 (Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve | Enric Sala)
Uploaded: 2018-06-28T16:41:13.000Z
Duration: 13 min 6 s

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If you were to jump into any random spot in the ocean,

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Yanyan Hong

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you would probably see something like this.

如果你要跳入海洋中 一個隨機選擇的地點，

Because we have taken them out of the water

因為我們把牠們 從水中抓出來的速度

Today I want to propose a strategy to save ocean life,

and the solution has a lot to do with economics.

今天我想要提出一項策略， 來拯救海洋生命，

In 1999, a little place called Cabo Pulmo in Mexico

這項解決方案和經濟 有密切的相關性。

1999 年，墨西哥 一個叫普爾莫角的小地方

The fishermen were so upset not having enough fish to catch

that they did something that no one expected.

沒有魚可以捕，讓漁夫非常沮喪，

Instead of spending more time at sea, trying to catch the few fish left,

他們做了一件沒人預期到的事。

他們沒有花更多時間在海上， 試著抓出所剩無幾的魚，

他們在海上建立了一個國家公園。

When we returned, 10 years later, this is what we saw.

十年後，我們再返回時， 看到了這樣的景象。

was now a kaleidoscope of life and color.

We saw it back to pristine in only 10 years.

現在成了生命和色彩的萬花筒。

Including the return of the large predators,

我們看到它在僅僅 十年間就回到原貌。

like the groupers, the sharks, the jacks.

are making much more money now, from tourism.

Now, when we can align economic needs with conservation,

當我們能讓經濟需求與保育配合，

And we have seen similar recoveries all over the world.

I spent 20 years studying human impacts in the ocean.

在全世界，我們都看過 類似的恢復狀況。

But when I saw firsthand the regeneration of places like Cabo Pulmo,

我花了二十年研究 人類對海洋的影響。

但當我親眼看到 像普爾莫角這類地方的重生，

So I decided to quit my job as a university professor

to dedicate my life to save more ocean places like this.

所以我決定辭去大學教授的工作，

In the last 10 years, our team at National Geographic Pristine Seas

把我的人生投入拯救 更多像這樣的海洋地區。

在過去十年，我們的 「國家地理原始海洋」團隊

some of the wildest places left in the ocean

and worked with governments to protect them.

These are all now protected, covering a total area half the size of Canada.

並和政府合作，來保護這些地方。

These places are the Yellowstones and the Serengetis of the sea.

加起來的總面積 有半個加拿大這麼大。

These are places where you jump in the water

and are immediately surrounded by sharks.

這些地方是海洋的 黃石公園和塞倫蓋提。

because the sharks are a good indicator of the health of the ecosystem.

that take us to the ocean of 1,000 years ago.

因為鯊魚是很好的指標， 表示生態系統很健康。

But they also show us what the future ocean could be like.

Because the ocean has extraordinary regenerative power,

we have seen great recovery in just a few years.

但它們也讓我們看到， 未來的海洋可能是什麼樣子。

We just need to protect many more places at risk

so they can become wild and full of life again.

短短幾年我們就已經 看到了了不起的恢復狀況。

我們得要保護更多 面臨風險的地方，

is fully protected from fishing and other activities.

讓它們能回復野生，再次充滿生命。

Studies suggest that we need at least 30 percent of the ocean under protection

能得到完整的保護， 不受捕魚和其他活動影響。

not just to save marine life, but to save us, too.

Because the ocean gives us more than half of the oxygen we breathe, food,

研究指出，我們至少 要有 30% 的海洋受到保護，

這樣不僅能拯救海洋生命， 也能拯救我們。

因為我們呼吸的氧氣和食物 有一半以上都來自海洋，

Now, is there a way to accelerate ocean protection?

要有健康的海洋，我們才能生存。

And it involves us looking at the high seas.

有什麼方式可以加速海洋保護嗎？

Now coastal countries have authority over 200 nautical miles from shore.

這個方法需要我們去研究公海。

Everything beyond those areas are called the high seas.

沿岸國家擁有海岸起算 兩百海浬範圍內的主權。

but they all are, so it's a little like the Wild West.

And there are two main types of fishing in the high seas.

也沒有任何國家要為公海負責，

但公海有一點像是蠻荒的美國西部。

Bottom trawling is the most destructive practice in the world.

在公海，有兩種主要的捕魚方式。

Super trawlers, the largest fishing vessels in the ocean,

have nets so large that they can hold a dozen 747 jets.

海底拖網捕魚是世界上 最具破壞性的做法。

These huge nets destroy everything in their paths --

超級拖網漁船是 海上最大的捕魚船，

including deep corals that grow on sea mounds,

它的魚網大到可以網住 12 台 747 噴射機。

這些大型魚網會把它們 經過的地方都摧毀——

And fishing near the surface targets mostly species

包括長在海底山上的深海珊瑚，

that migrate between the high seas and country's waters,

And many of these species are threatened because of too much fishing

這些物種當中有許多 都因為過度捕撈和不良管理

Until now, it was difficult to know exactly,

because countries have been very secretive

到目前為止，都很難明確知道，

But now, satellite technology allows us to track individual boats.

但現在，衛星技術 讓我們能夠追蹤個別船隻。

we are presenting the data that you are going to see.

I'm going to show you the tracks of two boats

我們把接下來各位 將會看到的資料公開呈現。

using a satellite automated identification system.

This is a long-liner, fishing around the southern coast of Africa.

After a few months fishing there, the boat goes to Japan to resupply,

and shortly after, here it is, fishing around Madagascar.

這是一艘延繩漁船， 沿著非洲南海岸捕魚。

This is a Russian trawler fishing, probably, for cod,

在那裡捕魚了幾個月之後， 這艘船到日本去做再補給，

沒多久，在這裡， 到馬達加斯加捕魚。

and then across the high seas of the north Atlantic.

這是一艘俄國拖網漁船， 可能是在捕鱈魚，

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