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...locals over the Mediterranean's resources as the annual summer hunt for bluefin tuna. Much of the Med's tuna is no longer caught by traditional means. High-tech "tuna ranches" began appearing in the Med in the late '90s and have proliferated over the past decade - fish farms consisting of circular floating cages about 50 m in diameter and 50 m deep, set up 2-3 km from shore. The ranches are most often controlled not by small European operators but by large multinational corporations. In the cages, tuna fatten up on smaller fish, often for months...
...have favorites." Hardest to make is an elegantly tapered, 1.2-m-tall painted emu, which carries the relatively steep price of $160. Which all helps to pay the rent. And, despite the distant noise of the highway, he couldn't wish for a better place to farm gnomes. "A beautiful little spot," he says. Enchanted, to be sure...
...than a horse, but Pekin remains an old-fashioned upholder of pastoral civilization. That he is doing his job is clear from the statistics: lamb survival rates are 85% inside the fence; 60% outside it. And there's no doubt which side he's on. Brought up on a farm in Victoria's Western District, Pekin took off on holiday in 1990 "and never went back." A hired hand on stations from Cameron Corner to the Pilbara, the dogger has fallen in love with the lure of long distance. "Oh, it's beautiful," he says. "When I camp...
...Beck's interest in militaria started during his wartime childhood in Townsville, where there was a huge Allied military base. "The Australian Army had a camp and firing range on our farm," he says. In the 1950s, while Australians tried to forget about the war, Beck set about ensuring that they wouldn't, buying military vehicles and equipment at knockdown prices. "It's preserving history,'' he says of the collection, which he and his wife Barbara opened to the public...
...smoko. The billy boils, banter flows. Cook Jill has brought buttered bread, treacle and sausage rolls. Slightly less grubby from work than the men and Swedish traveler Christine are two first-year veterinary science students from Melbourne. Emma Zalcman and Kristie Jennings are getting valuable farm exp-erience and having fun. "The interaction between city and country people has virtually gone," says Burton, who stayed up most of the previous night getting to know the youngsters. "No one seems to have relatives in the bush anymore...