Scientists discover massively-abundant ocean habitats.

Nature has published the first ever study that tracked fish across the world. After following fish on their migrations for ten years, two huge areas of the northern Pacific have been discovered to be the ocean equivalents of pristine and massively-abundant wilderness. The Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) data set, built from over a quarter million days of tracking data using satellites, followed a mass of migration patterns of predator species to make the amazing new discovery. The project was originally called the Census of Marine Life, attaching tags to elephant seals, white sharks, giant leatherback turtles, bluefin tuna, swordfish and other marine animals. It is now hoped that this completely new information can be used to protect the environments and to sustain world fisheries.

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