The New Mediterranean

[BigTex]

After reading through Iron's thread on overfishing. I found it interesting that people would be more concerned about overfishing in the Mediterranean instead of Caulerpa Taxifolia.


The new Mediterranean. A lush green carpet.

I'm curious on yall's opinions on the subject. What do most Europeans think of the destruction of the mediterranean ecosystem and what do you think should be done? Also I'm concerned that the USA has yet to ban owning this popular aquarium seaweed, since it only takes a near microscopic fragment to restart an entire growth. After the small patch was found in California I had figured at least there would be a ban then, but still its been 3 years and nothing has been done really to prevent it.

Also I'm curious how bad has it gotten in Australia? I know its spread pretty bad over there but I'm not sure how bad.

And is anyone supporting the French idea of killing, or at least stalling, it with a horde of seaweed eating snails?

Here's a good fact book and article on the veratious seaweedhttp://www.sbg.ac.at/ipk/avstudio/pierofun/ct/ct-1.htm.