Inquiry Hour 1.1 - Identifying Questions and Hypotheses

        According to Australian scientists, continued harvesting of predatory fish may affect the environment in more ways than one would expect. The excessive culling and over-fishing may affect the natural food chain, and this can alter the blue carbon ecosystems. Changing the food chain means changing the amount of carbon captured in the seabed. "Predators play an important and potentially irreplaceable role in carbon cycling. The effect of the disproportionate loss of species high in the food chain cannot be underestimated." (Professor Connolly, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928123318.htm)