No dock is an island: Tons of sealife crosses ocean on tsunami-damaged dock

http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/07/tons-sealife-crosses-ocean-tsunami-damaged-dock/

" Researchers at Oregon State University said Thursday that the dock is covered in about 13 pounds of organisms per square foot, or a total of about 100 tons total. They have identified barnacles, starfish, urchins, anemones, amphipods, worms, mussels, limpets, snails, solitary tunicates and algae – dozens of species in all.

"This float is an island unlike any transoceanic debris we have ever seen," John Chapman, an invasive species specialist for the university, said in a press release."

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