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...that catches 90% of the country's menhaden. The Houston-based Omega Protein insists the menhaden population is healthy. But while the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission says menhaden don't yet face overfishing on a coastal scale, it is limiting the industrial harvest of the fish in Chesapeake Bay, hard hit of late by dead zones. "The devastation of the marine environment has to be taken into account," says H. Bruce Franklin, a professor of American studies at Rutgers University and the author of a recent book on menhaden, The Most Important Fish in the Sea. (See TIME...
...Granite Bay, Calif., and Winthrop House
...local topography, both offshore and on - damage to property on a seaside cliff is a lot different from that on a beach. And even if property lies at a generally low elevation, it makes a difference whether the region is hilly or flat, or close to a bay or estuary...
...towels on some concrete steps.) It wasn't that we'd forgotten about the sharks. As we set up our little beach camp, I regaled our guests with a story about the legendary "Sub," a monstrous great white that, as some accounts have it, lived in False Bay in the 1970s and '80s. Sub was said to show up on sonar and enjoy munching outboards off the back of motorboats. Our fellow swimmers were likely just as mindful of the predators in the water: many were nipping off for lunch at a place called Kalkies, a nearby fish-and-chips...
...Those figures may make shark attacks sound pretty unlikely, but remember, those are the chances of being attacked in any of the oceans of the world, rather than in my local, great white-infested bay. (See pictures of sharks...