While guides from Seafood Watch and the Blue Ocean Institute both say monkfish populations are sufficient to continue harvesting at current rates, each group takes issue with the method used to catch the warty, brown bottom-feeder.

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As such, they form an essential component of marine observing systems established as part of the World Weather Watch, the World Climate Research Programme, the Global Ocean Observing System, the Global Climate Observing System and other meteorological and oceanographic operational and research programmes.

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Every afternoon he'd launch it from a steep hill near his cliffside home in Sydney and watch, mesmerized, as it caught the updraft from the Pacific Ocean.

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