And actually other far-flung reaches, previously unkown to us. No matter how you cut it, like steelhead that migrate to Japan every year and back to the west coast to spawn. Our world and oceans are very inter-connected. What happens off the coast of Japan is of concern to all countries.
PlanetArk 15 Dec 05
"Fish with Chips" Reveal Ocean Migration Routes
Story by Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
"..."Fish with chips" - hi-tech implants that enable either satellite or seabed tracking - were one of the breakthroughs to uncover ocean migration paths, scientists in the 73-nation Census of Marine Life (COML) said.
One bluefin tuna swam the Pacific three times in 600 days according to satellite records - an enormous 40,000 km (24,850 miles) or the distance around the world. That indicated that Japanese and American tuna stocks were one and the same.
"Our studies show that the oceans are a much more complex system than we thought," said Fred Grassle, chair of the COML steering committee.
The census aims to document the oceans as part of efforts to protect marine resources..."
http://www.wildsingapore.com/news/20051112/051214-3.htm Deep Sea Fish 'Mystery Migration' Across Pacific Ocean
Posted by Kristin Mellon on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Filed under: Discovery,News & Resources
Deep sea fish species found in the north Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic, on the other side of the world.
(From BBC News) -- It is unclear how the animals, a giant rattail grenadier, pelagic eelpout and deep sea squid, travelled so far.
"Their discovery 15,000km from their usual home raises the possibility that deep sea currents can transport animals from one polar region to another.
Details are published in the journal Deep Sea Research part I.
"These findings were completely unexpected," says Dr Alexander Arkhipkin of the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department, based in Stanley, on the Falkland Islands in the southwest Atlantic Ocean.
Since 1987, the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department has performed surveys of fish caught by commercial and research fishing trawlers travelling above the Patagonian Shelf and slope around the islands..."
http://www.oceanleadership.org/2010/deep-sea-fish-mystery-migration-across-pacific-ocean/Air travels from Japan to the west coast, rain travels from Japan to the west coast and as above, fish and other species migrate all over the place, including the west coast.
TEPCO, FUCKING WEASELS