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House: Mather, baby. Concentration: VES Film Studies. Hometown: Victorville, CA. Ideal Date: Anything that ends in a freshman dorm. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Feed my narcissism. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Disneyland until the fireworks, then Mather. First thing you notice about a girl: Confidence and competence. Your best pick-up line: Hi, I’m Nick Noyer. Best lie you’ve ever told: This is my first time, too. Favorite childhood toy: A mirror. Sexiest physical trait: My metabolism. Favorite part about Harvard: How truly genuine the students...
There are other worrisome trends, such as the rapid expansion of other species now being farmed, which have much higher feed requirements. Ranched tuna, for instance, dine on live pelagic fish, such as anchovies, sardines and mackerel, but it takes about 20 kg (44 lbs.) of such feed to get 1 kg of tuna ready for a sushi bar near you. (Tuna are ranched - that is, corralled from the wild and then fed in anchored pens - because despite prodigious efforts, especially by the Japanese, no one has been able to raise tuna from eggs...
Environmentalists and industry dispute whether current wild-fish harvesting is done at sustainable levels, but there's no dispute that it's a finite resource - and demand keeps growing. A staggering 37% of all global seafood is now ground into feed, up from 7.7% in 1948, according to recent research from the UBC Fisheries Centre. One third of that feed goes to China, where 70% of the world's fish farming takes place; China now devotes nearly 1 million hectares (close to 4,000 sq. mi.) of land to shrimp farms. And about 45% of the global production of fishmeal...
...recharge the allure of the modest shellfish, including the oyster, which is the target of reseeding campaigns from Long Island Sound to Puget Sound, where it has been most successful. Not only are oysters, along with other mollusks, good for you - oysters are freakishly high in zinc - they feed themselves...
...official UC blog and an online archive of past UC documents, Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said yesterday. The archive innovation is a product of the labors of UC Student Affairs Committee Chairman Michael R. Ragalie ’09, who used a feed-scanner to compile digital images of 10 years of UC legislation, minutes, agendas, and correspondence, and then did the programming to make the 200 documents—dating from 1982 to 1992—searchable. “The original goal was to have a way for council members to look...