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...some scientists, who warn that if even more drastic measures are not taken, depleted stocks may never recover. They are calling on the E.U. to ban trawlers from taking cod, haddock and whiting from the North Sea altogether. But even Fischler's proposal is enough to terrify and enrage fishermen. Alex Smith, chairman of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, claims that if fishery is reduced by 80%, the whole industry will collapse, at a cost of 20,000 jobs. To demonstrate their opposition to the proposed cuts, hundreds of fishermen from several European countries last week motored out from North...
...1980s, but failed to persuade the government to act. So when fishing was finally banned in 1992, the fishery stood at 1% to 3% of its historic levels. Even today the fish have not returned. In the mid-1980s, the fishery produced over 200,000 tons a year, but fishermen today cannot catch enough to fill their modest 7,000-ton quota. Scientists fear that the same disaster could befall European stocks. One factor in the Newfoundland collapse may have been an effect of climate changes caused by man. During the period 1988-96 the Atlantic was anomalously cold, because...
...damages at $42 million and climbing. Now the worry is that fierce storms still churning in the Atlantic will push the spill's other oil slicks toward the shore. "They call this the Death Coast. It couldn't be more appropriately named," says Juan Antonio Toja, head of the fishermen's cooperative in the village of Laxe. Long a graveyard for ships, the area has now seen three major oil disasters since 1976. Toja's depressed mood matched that of his neighbors, among them the owners of three small boats who had gone out to fish beyond the exclusion zone...
...first dedicated store, designed by the architect Philip Johnson, will open this week on Milan's tony Via Spiga. Sagra de Rosen, retail analyst for J.P. Morgan, describes Fay as "the Italian Burberry," due to its origins in outerwear. The first coats are thought to have been made for fishermen in the U.S. state of Maine in the 1960s by a Mr. Fay. Della Valle bought the company in the mid-1980s. Sales have grown about 25% annually ever since. Now Fay makes clothes and bags, too, but managing director Martino Scabbia Guerrini says the company's mission is unchanged...
...headed for port through the midwinter dusk, there was little about the M.V. Mecca that stood out from the other boats plying the waters off southern Bangladesh. Portworkers and fishermen noted the same squat deckhouse and plump hold that for centuries have sheltered fishermen from the cyclones of the Bay of Bengal. The Mecca had the usual rusted rigging and smoke-blackened stern. And the crew too was like most others working off Chittagong: pure Rohingyas?stocky Muslim refugees from western Burma. Only the thick salt marks high on the Mecca's bow hinted that it was ending a voyage...