Amidst all this bad news, sad news, devastating news, there is some glimpse of hope. Not all that the earthquake does is devastating. In fact, I think that there is a reason perhaps that our earth does the things it does. Maybe that it is just that we have not been able to efficiently work around the schedule of the earth in terms of where we settle and how we live that we are so negatively impacted by earthquakes and tsunamis and therefore consider them so devastating. In fact, for the shallow water fish, this is good news. The abundance of dead and decaying material produces a massive growth in the plankton population. Hence, all the fish that feed on plankton suddenly experienced a huge growth in their population, an example being sardines. In addition, due to the wave action and the obvious fear of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami and the possibility of another occurrence of such a thing, there was a significant decrease in the amount of motor boats present on the water. This caused an increase in fish populations as well as populations of dolphins.
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