Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore

An anonymous reader writes "When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last year's tsunami in Japan to show up on the West Coast. But scientists worried it represented a whole new way for invasive species of seaweed, crabs and other marine organisms to break the earth's natural barriers and further muck up the West Coast's marine environments. And more invasive species could be hitching rides on tsunami debris expected to arrive in the weeks and months to come."

Comments

Don't Intervene

[Thelasko]

I sure hope no one tries to intervene and prevent this from happening. This is not a man made occurrence, but an entirely natural one. It shouldn't be stopped, but instead studied. This is a potential evolutionary force that has never been studied.

Yeah, it might have an economic impact. Some fish species may become extinct, and I propose we raise the tasty ones on fish farms. However, interfering with this natural process would be as dangerous as any man made cause of extinction.