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...Fish farming--aquaculture--doesn't take pressure off wild fish. Many farms use large numbers of cheap, wild-caught fish as feed to raise fewer shrimp and fish of more lucrative varieties. And industrial-scale fish- and shrimp-aquaculture operations sometimes damage the coastlines where the facilities are located. The farms can foul the water, destroy mangroves and marshes, drive local fishers out of business and serve as breeding grounds for fish diseases. In places such as Bangladesh, Thailand and India, which grow shrimp mainly for export to richer countries, diseases and pollution usually limit a farm's life...
...world devoted to raising grain has fallen 7%. Increased agricultural productivity has made up for that loss, but the Green Revolution may be reaching the point of diminishing returns. In 1998 the world grain harvest declined 2% from the previous year, even as there were 1.4% more mouths to feed...
...personal hero is Captain Ron Gatto of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Watershed Police. Since 1905 New York City has employed an environmental police force to protect the 1,969 sq. mi. (5,100 sq km) of watersheds that feed the city's upstate drinking-water reservoirs. DEP, which came into being in 1978, has the authority to enforce laws against polluting the watersheds. But records show that prior to 1989, DEP's police never arrested a single polluter. A succession of New York City governments apparently didn't want to antagonize upstate landowners, who wielded great...
...smugly picked up Cisco at $64 and watched it rebound to $76 were by late last week the proud owners of a $57 stock. That will probably work out for them longer term. But raise your hand if you think such chastened buyers are going to bottom feed hungrily again real soon. Even if they want to, many exhausted their reserves buying during the earlier rout...
...captain Jeanne Ficociello set up the next goal with a steal, and junior Megan Austin finished the play off a perfect feed from fellow junior Lauren Corkery...