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"If we don't do something about ocean pollution," Payne said from the study of his hillside home in South Woodstock, Vt., "I think there's a very good chance that humanity will lose access to fish from the sea. And because seafood is the principal source of protein for over a billion people, you could easily argue that this is the largest public health crisis in the world."
"... To study the level of this contamination at the top of the food chain, Payne and his team chose the sperm whale because males of the species are found in all oceans, while the females stay near the equator. By circling the equator, Payne and the Odyssey team let the males, which return there for breeding, bring them a global sample from places you can't go in a boat. ...
...sitting inside those biopsy samples is the first overall baseline assessment of pollution in the world's oceans.
"What we've analyzed so far," Payne said, "is shocking. It's well beyond any degree of pollutants that I thought would exist."
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