October 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, October 8 – Animals are the heartbeat of this meaningful planet. Certain animals, like Northeast Pacific Herring, are Mother Earth’s engineers. That is, they are the hub that sustains their community.

From British Columbia’s fjord-rich Inside Passage to Alaska’s famed Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, heralded Herring and their proteinaceous eggs (roes) feed an impressive array of predators, including hundreds of marine and terrestrial species. Fascinatingly, their carcasses provide the coastal Salmon Nation Rainforests with nitrogen, a crucial marine-derived nutrient for colossal castles, the trees. (Incidentally, Herring also feed flies that power millions of migrating songbirds).  

Herring can live for 20 years and spawn up to nine times. Herring support Humpback and Gray Whales, Orcas, Sharks, Chinook Salmon, Porpoises, Dolphins, Seals, Sealions, Sea Otters, Halibut, Rockfish, Cod, Hake, Lingcod, Dogfish, Steelhead Trout, Surf Scoters, Bald Eagles, Common Murres (80 per cent of their diet during breeding season), Sea Wolves, Spirit and Black Bears and others.

Welcome to Mother’s intertwined time-tested heaven on Earth.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 11 — The health and wellbeing of the oceans are the mainstay of earthly life. The world’s leaders are hell-bent to annihilate the oceans for the almighty dollar.

Ocean mining is the finishing blow. It will bankrupt irreplaceable biodiverse oases along seamounts, deep ocean floors and vents, and the abyssal plain.

There are trillions of deep ocean polymetallic nodules containing cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese (and other rare earths) used in the batteries of electric cars and other machines as we transition to renewable energies.