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What is the value of the open ocean? While commercial fisheries may be one of the most obvious sources of economic value the ocean provides, they are not the only one. Now a team of scientists has for the first time attached a dollar value to several of the leading "ecosystem services" -- or natural benefits - provided by the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean, an immense region stretching west from the west coasts of North and South America. [Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography]
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