Some say that is still only a small percentage of all the creatures living in the sea.
VOA: special.2009.01.13
Firstly, as this newly discovered 'blue gold' is mostly located in international waters, making it extra-territorial in international law, it can be argued that the genetic resources livinginthe deep sea belong to humanity as a whole and therefore ought to be exploited equitably.
The risk of loss of lives and economic disaster inthe southern Mediterranean is high due to strong population density along its coasts: around 150 million people concentrated in 46, 000 kms of coastline, 110 million of them livingin cities bordering thesea and some 200 million tourists visiting the area every year.
If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it inthesea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.