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This is a business that couldn't stay afloat without substantial subsidies from governments of roughly a dozen high-seas fishing nations - including Japan, South Korea, Russia, Iceland, Spain, France and the Ukraine - according to new research conducted by the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre. The subsidies defray substantial fuel costs - trawlers need a lot of power to move nets that weigh 15 tons and stretch a mile deep - keeping these boats working around the clock for weeks and months, mining the deep sea (it takes about four hours to fish...
...small portion of the global fishing industry. Among the 12 leading high-seas fishing countries, bottom-trawling accounted for less than 2% of the 15.5 million tons of total landed catch, and added about $600 million to a worldwide $26 billion-a-year fishing business. And University of British Columbia researchers calculate that current subsidies for high-sea bottom-trawling amount to just over $150 million, a small fraction of the $30 billion that governments spend yearly to prop up a global fishing industry that produces twice as much as is sustainable. "It's important to nip these subsidies...
...Scott Haig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has a private practice in the New York City area...
...History of Science from 2000 to 2006. He has a joint appointment in FAS and the Harvard Medical School. Brandt is also a popular author. His most recent book, “The Cigarette Century,” was a New York Times bestseller. Trained at Brandeis and Columbia, Brandt is best known by undergraduates for a popular Core class on medicine in American society. In an interview with The Crimson last week, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said the selection of a new dean was essential to the University’s planning. “Feel free...
...history and ethnic studies, according to history professor Walter Johnson. “We all agreed that finding someone who could teach in the area of Asian American studies should be a priority,” Johnson said. But the prospective candidate, Mae M. Ngai, accepted a position at Columbia University instead, he said. Ngai did not respond to requests for comment. “Ethnic studies has a bigger presence on the campus at Columbia—that may have influenced her decision,” Johnson added.Unless the University commits significant resources to developing Asian American studies...