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Boatmen who catch wild fish and shellfish are often more strictly regulated than seafood farmers, whose wholesome image has helped them resist government oversight. But after eight years of discussion, shrimp farmers around the world are considering adoption of a universal certification process that would require them to comply with standards on the siting of ponds, effluent treatment, the reduction of chemicals and disease management. In exchange, their products would be labeled eco-friendly. By 2004, labels indicating whether seafood is farmed or wild will become mandatory in the U.S. (though they won't be required on restaurant menus). Jason...
...techniques like those used at Venture Point are widely adopted, fish farming could become sustainable while remaining profitable. If methods don't change, either voluntarily or by government regulation, we may get plenty of fish and shrimp to eat--at least for a while--but lose the wild stocks they came from and the clear blue waters in which they once swam...
...When Kuta recovers, Salans is confident Mozaic?call (62-361) 975 768 for reservations?will continue to do well. "The era of Kuta's wild nightlife is coming to a close," he says. "People will come to Bali for luxury resorts and some serious cocooning." And some serious food at Mozaic...
...succession of green canyons known as the Western Ghats that stretches from Bombay to Kerala?has followed the sad but familiar tale of modern development. In the last decade man drowned many of the forests behind vast new dams, cut down what timber remained and hunted to extinction the wild deer, boar and sheep that are the leopards' preferred prey. In the time it took to fill a reservoir, the leopards of the Ghats found themselves in the open, homeless and hungry. You'd expect a few attacks from these desperate creatures. Then you'd expect them to disappear...
...Throughout most of the world, man has nature by the throat. Occasionally in Bori Budruk, it's the other way around. By letting the leopards live, the villagers hold on to their past, preserving within themselves the trace memory of that which was once wild, fierce and free...