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标题: [新闻] 佛罗里达的鲨鱼会吸食坠海的古柯碱包裹
时间: Fri Jul 21 14:17:09 2023
1.媒体来源:
livescience
2.记者署名:
Hannah Osborne
3.完整新闻标题:
'Cocaine sharks' off Florida may be feasting on dumped bales of drugs
佛罗里达的鲨鱼会吸食坠海的古柯碱包裹
4.完整新闻内文:
'Cocaine sharks' off Florida may be feasting on dumped bales of drugs
News
By Hannah Osborne published about 20 hours ago
Shark Week show delves into whether sharks off the coast of Florida are
coming into contact with the huge quantities of cocaine that get dumped in
these waters.
佛罗里达州附近的“古柯碱鲨鱼”可能正在以倾倒的毒品大包为食
汉娜·奥斯本发表大约20小时前
《鲨鱼周》节目深入探讨佛罗里达州海岸附近的鲨鱼是否接触到倾倒在这些水域中的大量
古柯碱。
For decades, huge bundles of cocaine have washed up on Florida beaches,
having been smuggled from South and Central America. Hauls are often dumped
at sea (both to give to smugglers and evade law enforcement), and currents
and tides push them to shore. In June, the U.S. Coast Guard seized over
14,100 pounds (6,400 kilograms) of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic
Ocean, with an estimated value of $186 million.
几十年来，大批古柯碱被冲上佛罗里达州的海滩，这些古柯碱是从南美洲和中美洲走私而
来的。货物经常被倾倒在海上（既是为了给走私者，也是为了逃避执法），洋流和潮汐将
它们推到岸边。6月，美国海岸警卫队在加勒比海和大西洋查获超过14,100磅（6,400公斤
）古柯碱，估计价值1.86亿美元。
With so much cocaine entering the waters, Tom "The Blowfish" Hird wanted to
find out whether the thousands of sharks off Florida were ingesting the
dumped narcotics, and — if so — whether the drugs were having any impact on
them. In "Cocaine Sharks," which is part of Discovery's Shark Week, Hird and
University of Florida environmental scientist Tracy Fanara carry out a series
of experiments to find out.
由于大量古柯碱进入水域，汤姆“河豚”赫德想查明佛罗里达州附近的数千条鲨鱼是否摄
入了倾倒的麻醉品，如果是的话，这些药物是否对它们产生了任何影响。在探索鲨鱼周的
一部分“古柯碱鲨鱼”中，赫德和佛罗里达大学环境科学家特雷西·法纳拉进行了一系列
实验来找出答案。
"The deeper story here is the way that chemicals, pharmaceuticals and illicit
drugs are entering our waterways — entering our oceans — and what effect
that they then could go on to have on these delicate ocean ecosystems," Hird
told Live Science.
赫德告诉《生活科学》：“这里更深层的故事是化学品、药品和非法药物进入我们的
水道、进入我们的海洋的方式，以及它们对这些脆弱的海洋生态系统产生的影响。”
Hird and Fanara set their sights on the Florida Keys, where fishers tell
stories of sharks consuming drugs that have been funneled into the region on
ocean currents. In the show, they dive with sharks to look for any unusual
behaviors and begin to see sharks acting in unexpected ways. One great
hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) — a species that's normally wary of people —
comes straight at the team and appears to be swimming with a wonk. At a
shipwreck 60 feet (18 meters) beneath the surface, Hird encounters a sandbar
shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) that appears to be fixated on something and
swims in tight circles, despite there being nothing in sight.
赫德和法纳拉把目光投向了佛罗里达群岛，那里的渔民讲述了鲨鱼食用随洋流流入该地区
的药物的故事。在节目中，他们与鲨鱼一起潜水，寻找任何异常行为，并开始看到鲨鱼以
意想不到的方式行事。一只大双髻鲨（Sphyrna mokarran）—一种通常对人类保持警惕的
物种—径直向团队走来，看起来像是在游泳。在海面以下 60 英尺（18 公尺）的沉船
残骸中，赫德遇到了一条沙洲鲨（Carcharhinus plumbeus），它似乎固定在某物上，并
在小范围内绕圈游动，尽管看不到任何东西。
To investigate further, Hird and Fanara design three experiments to see how
sharks react to bales of "cocaine" dropped in the water. They create packages
similar in size and appearance to real cocaine bales. In the first, they set
these pseudo-bales next to dummy swans to see what the sharks go to. To their
surprise, the sharks head straight for the bales, taking bites from them. One
shark even grabs a bale and swims off with it.
为了进一步调查，赫德和法纳拉设计了三个实验，看看鲨鱼对掉入水中的“古柯碱”包有
何反应。他们制作的包装在尺寸和外观上与真正的古柯碱包相似。首先，他们将这些假包
放在假天鹅旁边，看看鲨鱼会去哪里。令他们惊讶的是，鲨鱼直奔这些草捆而去，咬了一
口。一条鲨鱼甚至抓住了一个包并带着它游走了。
Next, they make a bait ball of highly concentrated fish powder, which would
trigger a dopamine rush as close to a hit of cocaine as the team could
feasibly (and ethically) do. The sharks are seen going wild. "I think we have
got a potential scenario of what it may look like if you gave sharks
cocaine," Hird said in the film. "We gave them what I think is the next best
thing. [It] set [their] brains aflame. It was crazy."
接下来，他们制作了一个高度浓缩的鱼粉诱饵球，这会引发多巴胺的激增，就像团队在可
行（并且在道德上）可以做到的那样，类似于可卡因的刺激。人们看到鲨鱼变得疯狂。赫
德在影片中说：“我认为我们已经得到了一个可能的场景，如果你给鲨鱼喂古柯碱，可能
会出现什么情况。” “我们给了他们我认为是次好的东西。[它]点燃了[他们]的大脑。
这太疯狂了。”
Finally, the team drop their fake cocaine bales from an airplane to simulate
a real-life drug drop — and multiple shark species, including tiger sharks
(Galeocerdo cuvier), move in.
最后，团队从飞机上投下假古柯碱包来模拟现实生活中的毒品投掷，包括虎鲨（
Galeocerdo cuvier）在内的多种鲨鱼物种纷纷涌入。
Hird said that what they uncovered doesn't necessarily show that sharks in
Florida are consuming cocaine. A multitude of factors could explain the
behavior observed during filming, and these experiments would need to be
repeated over and over to draw full conclusions.
赫德说，他们的发现并不一定表明佛罗里达州的鲨鱼正在食用古柯碱。有多种因素可以解
释拍摄过程中观察到的行为，并且需要一遍又一遍地重复这些实验才能得出完整的结论
。
"We have no idea what [cocaine] could do to the shark," Hird told Live
Science, adding that of the limited research that's been done, different fish
appear to react in different ways to the same chemical. "So we can't even say
well this is a baseline and go from here," he said.
“我们不知道[古柯碱]会对鲨鱼产生什么影响，”赫德告诉《生活科学》，并补充说，根
据已经完成的有限研究，不同的鱼似乎对同一种化学物质有不同的反应。“所以我们甚至
不能说这是一个起始线并从这里开始，”他说。
But he said he hopes the show will lead to more research in the area, and
that he'd like to carry out more tests, including on tissue and blood
samples, to find out whether there is evidence of cocaine in these sharks'
bodies.
但他表示，他希望该节目能够引发该领域的更多研究，并且他希望进行更多测试，包括组
织和血液样本，以查明这些鲨鱼体内是否存在古柯碱的证据。
And it's not just cocaine that may be a problem. "The other thing we might
find is actually this long flow, [this] drip of pharmaceuticals: caffeine,
lidocaine, cocaine, amphetamine, antidepressants, birth control — this long
slow drift of them from cities into the [ocean] is… starting to hit these
animals," Hird said.
"Cocaine Sharks" is on the Discovery Channel at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Wednesday,
July 26.
问题不只是古柯碱。“我们可能会发现的另一件事实际上是这种长长的流动，[这种]药物
滴注：咖啡因、利多卡因、古柯碱、安非他命、抗抑郁药、节育药物——它们从城市缓慢
漂流到[海洋]......开始攻击这些动物，”赫德说。
“古柯碱鲨鱼”将于 7 月 26 日星期三东部时间/太平洋时间晚上 10 点在探索频道播出
。
5.完整新闻连结 (或短网址)不可用YAHOO、LINE、MSN等转载媒体:
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6.备注:
惊悚片又有新题材了，居然还会捡空降包开趴诶？