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Niaz Dorry rolls her eyes, grins and says she had forgotten how hard collecting signatures can be. She is a big, wide, powerful woman with an amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
Dorry's great gift, though, is for living and working, talking and listening in towns shadowed by the threat of ecological calamity--towns like Gloucester, Mass., the heavily Italian old fishing port where she settled four years ago. At first fishermen losing boats to bankruptcy weren't eager to hear their trouble analyzed by a woman environmentalist, and certainly not by a nonreligious Muslim, born in the U.S. of Iranian parents. But the underlying problem, years of overfishing off New England that had caused fish stocks to crash, wouldn't go away. Neither would Dorry. Quietly she spoke to Gloucester...
...areas. Meanwhile the Star's owners, rebuffed in Gloucester, are lobbying to operate from Maine. Greenpeace and many other groups contend that trawlers are too efficient and too wasteful. They contribute to overfishing by catching everything in a gigantic swath. A problem with this is "by-catch," undersize fish or unwanted species that go back over the side, dead...
...wasn't just clown fish and brilliant anemones she discovered down there. Basma was alarmed to find Aqaba's reefs full of litter. She and some friends founded JREDS in 1993 as a diving club, but it became an environmental outfit, and Basma sharpened her interest by taking marine science during a semester at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts...
Through signs, pamphlets and exhibits, Basma's group teaches the Jordanian public how to use the sea without damaging it. Boaters are told not to drop anchors that can break the reef, and divers are discouraged from snatching souvenir corals or feeding the fish. JREDS also organizes cleanup dives and recruits schoolchildren to sweep trash off the beaches...