The research comes as the Queensland state government in Australia announces a new plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef from agricultural pollution. 調查同樣在澳大利亞昆士蘭州進行，政府宣布了一個新的計劃保護巨大的珊瑚礁屏障免受農業污染的危害。
The Ministry of Agriculture has discouraged it from gathering data even though, as one SEPA official sees it, Chinese agriculture pollutes as much as its industries. 即使一個環保局的官員注意到中國的農業污染已經和工業污染一樣嚴重，農業部還是叫停了環保局的數據收集工作。
