Fishing Poll: Taking a Census of Ocean Species [Slide Show] [News]

There may not be too many fish in the sea, to paraphrase the old song, but there are certainly a lot. Scientists don't have a good idea of just how many fish--or crustacean, sponge, squid, plankton, and even mammal--species there are in the ocean, but they estimate as many as one million. The Census of Marine Life aims to record as much of that as possible by 2010, cleaning up the species registers and expanding them where necessary.View Slide Show [More]

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