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...fish farming at its worst, travel to Chile, where salmon farming has boomed in the past decade and generates $1 billion a year in export revenue. "A film of feed leftover made of fish oil, animal fat and transgenic soybean oil floats on the water around the salmon farms," says Ronald Pfeil, 67, a cattle farmer in Chile's remote Aysen region. "When the tide is low, the beaches stink...
Under international pressure, Chile introduced strict new regulations in January. But the problems surrounding fish farming are complex, and some are only dimly understood. Daniel Pauly, 55, a professor of fisheries science at the University of British Columbia, has calculated that it takes 2 to 5 lbs. of anchovies, sardines, menhaden and the other oily fish that comprise fish meal to produce 1 lb. of farmed salmon, which he says makes no sense in a world trying to increase the amount of available protein. Kentucky State University biologist James Tidwell, 47, a former president of the World Aquaculture Society, points...
Departments have already begun to discuss changing requirements to make it easier to study abroad. The University is also looking to create its own Harvard-run programs abroad, beginning with a pilot effort in Chile this spring...
...pilot program for this approach will begin later this academic year in Santiago, Chile...
...Rockefeller Center has a regional office in Chile, and Harvard will organize a special orientation program, as well as internships and activities, for students during their stay...