Word: biologist
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Robert Howard, a biologist at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, said the Department of the Interior doesn't understand that the fisheries are worth far more than the oil under George's Bank. "If developed and drilled all at one time, the oil from the bank would support the U.S. for only five to eight days," he said...
...Both are among the game fish that Michigan spends $1.6 million a year to stock in its waters. Whites fear that Chippewa gill netters will clean out the trout and cohos, and destroy the state's $350 million-a-year sport-fishing industry. Myrl Keller, a state fish biologist, calls the Indians' use of the nets a "malicious, wasteful mode of fishing...
...Bank is considerably greater than at other drilling sites. Attorney Douglas Foy of the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston predicted in court that at least one major spill would occur over 20 years. Worse yet, warned Foy, would be the almost continuous discharges from day-to-day operations. Adds Biologist Howard Sanders of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "There is a very real danger to Georges Bank fish from low-level chronic pollution...
...every scientist agrees. Says John Ryther, another Woods Hole biologist: "I don't believe drilling will cause mass mortalities of fish." The Government maintains that the leases cover no spawning grounds on Georges Bank, and that the prevailing currents could easily sweep an oil slick to sea. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus notes that of 292 million bbl. of oil produced last year from off-shore U.S. wells, only two spills exceeded 50 bbl., the largest losing only 135 bbl. Besides, the oil revenues that could be realized even from a small reserve at Georges Bank are hard...
McKay is not the only half-truth in the novel; Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor in the 1850s and the national biologist in a golden age of zoology, plays a small but acidulous part in the book. "I have been accused of character assassination," McMahon says, "but in fact his character is a lot worse than I said. He was famous for exploitation of the young people in the museum, for signing his name to their work. The accusations came so credibly and so often, that even his biographer concluded there is a lot of truth to them...