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...interiors, is imposing. When the gallery moved in, the dust of 17 years was waiting to be swept out - as well as the carcasses of 50 dead pigeons in the chandelier. The opening show is a Hirst retrospective, including Love Lost - a submerged gynecologist's office containing 20 live carp - with the Hirsts distributed among the other works. Most visitors will enter at the front through a passage framed in white marble. The back entrance leads into a grand hall with some hyper-realistic Duane Hanson figures. (Don't disturb that exhausted tourist slumped by his luggage...
...Cynically - and if Blair did not have an ounce of cynicism in his body, he would be the first politician of whom that was true - the Prime Minister must reason that what Washington wants, Washington usually gets. Better to stay on the good side of a likely victor than carp from the sidelines. (For this reason, I hereby fearlessly predict that if there is a war in Iraq, French troops will take part.) But there are two other factors at play. First, Blair sincerely believes, as he told British diplomats earlier this month, that it is simply wrong for rich...
...farming of them is not usually harmful to the ecosystem. Farming of crayfish in China--the largest supplier to the U.S.--is a relatively low-maintenance, drug-free business carried out in rice paddies. Next come the vegetarian freshwater species that do not need large quantities of fish meal--carp, catfish and tilapia. At the bottom are salmon and shrimp, onetime luxury foods that, thanks to aquaculture, can be purchased around the world in any season at supermarket prices. Both species eat several pounds of fish meal to gain a pound of weight. And both create lots of waste...
...with or consuming native fish, or cross-breeding with them and diluting the genes that have helped them survive. Fish escapes are common: nets are ripped open by predators or storms, fish in ponds get swept into channels by rainfall, others are released accidentally during transport. Bighead and silver carp that were introduced to China's plateau lakes in the 1950s have cleared those waters of whole species of indigenous fish. And Asian carp, which were introduced in Mississippi Delta catfish ponds to control parasites, escaped in the early 1990s and have migrated up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers...
...Chinese, who have been farming fish for 2,000 years, pioneered a method in which nothing is wasted. Farmers dig ponds around rice paddies and feed carp in the ponds with weeds from the rice field. The silt from the ponds is used as fertilizer for the fields, and crabs are grown to eat pests. Some of those techniques are being adapted in Western fish farms. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dan Butterfield, 59, raises bass, carp, catfish and other species in the same pond; the sun and the catfish feces stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which feeds the other species...