scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals called plankton. most of these plants and animals are too small for the human eye to see. they drift about lazily with the currents, providing a basic food for many larger animals.
plankton has been described as the equivalent of the grasses that grow on the dry land continents, and the comparison is an appropriate one. in potential food value, however, plankton far outweighs that of the land grasses. one scientist has estimated that while grasses of the world produce about 49 billion tons of valuable carbohydrates each year, the sea＇s plankton generates more than twice as much.
despite its enormous food potential, little effect was made until recently to farm plankton as we farm grasses on land. now marine scientists have at last begun to study this possibility, especially as the sea＇s resources loom even more important as a means of feeding an epanding world population.
no one yet has seriously suggested that " plankton-burgers" may soon become popular around the world. as a possible farmed supplementary food source, however, plankton is gaining considerable interest among marine scientists.
one type of plankton that seems to have great harvest possibilities is a tiny shrimp-like creature called krill. growing to two or three inches long, krill provides the major food for the great blue whale, the largest animal to ever inhabit the earth. realizing that this whale may grow to 100 feet and weigh 150 tons at maturity, it is not surprising that each one devours more than one ton of krill daily.
分佈在世界海洋的數十億噸的小型動植物浮游生物要求. 大多數動植物太小,對人類的眼睛看到的. 他們飄流懶洋洋的潮流,提供了許多基本的食物大型動物.
浮游生物被稱為草原相當於生長在乾地上大陸,是比較恰當的. 糧食潛在價值,遠遠大於浮游生物的.土地種植. 科學家估計,在全世界產生草約49億噸,每年有價值的碳水化合物、海洋的浮游生物帶來超過兩倍.
儘管糧食的潛力巨大,已收到效果,直到最近我們浮游生物農場農場種植的土地. 現在海洋科學家終於開始研究這種可能性,特別是在海洋資源的機子更重要的,作為世界人口的温飽擴大.
但是沒有人認真認為"浮游生物的一塊"很快風行全世界. 作為補充食物來源可能耕種,人們的極大興趣海洋浮游生物科學家.
一類浮游生物,似乎有很大的可能性是很小的收成蝦一樣東西稱南極. 越來越兩三英寸長,主要漁獲為糧食大藍鯨,最大的動物都生活在地球上. 實現這一鯨魚可能增加到100英尺,重150噸,在成熟,這是不奇怪的,每個人的一噸多食海每日.
