Norway king crab, 34

no-take zones, 147–53, 161–62, 165, 183–84

Obama, Barack, 157–58, 214

Obama’s basslet, 213–14

Ocean Cleanup, 233

oceanic whitetip sharks, 80–81, 82–86, 87–88, 105

oceans

ancient seas (See prehistoric life)

future forests and meadows (See forests; seagrass meadows)

future ocean living (See future ocean solutions)

future reefs (See reefs)

missing angels (See sharks)

poisoned hunters (See orcas; pollution)

rebalancing seas (See conservation efforts)

remixing seas (See lionfish)

restoring seas (See fishing and farming)

vanishing ice walkers (See krill; penguins)

OceansAlaska, 245

octopuses, 37, 67–68, 90, 261–64

Operation Crayweed, 197–98

orcas

about, 110–11

in captivity, 123–25, 124n

emotions and “habits” of, 125–27

food sources, 72, 110–11, 122–23, 126, 155–56

future of, 114

migration of, 49–50, 51, 92–93, 126–27

noise pollution and, 122–23

in prehistoric seas, 21

Southern Resident Community of, 122–26

toxins found in, 109–10, 111–15, 125, 278n109

West Coast Community of, 109–10, 114

Ordovician period, 6–7, 10–11, 10n

otters. See sea otters

oyster farms, 244–45, 246

Pacific Ocean

conservation efforts in, 102, 166

coral reefs of, 210–11

elephant seal populations along, 134–35

elephant seals of, 134–35

kelp of, 169, 196

lionfish of, 30–32, 39

mining and, 162–64, 235–36, 251–55

orcas of, 121–26

plastic pollution in, 233–34

in prehistoric era, 14, 19, 21–22

sea otters of, 174–77, 184–86

sea stars of, 186–88

sharks of, 80, 99–100

tuna of, 136