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...hadn't sufficiently prepared for the hardship and loneliness of life in a foreign country, away from her friends and family, and without a job. She found herself having to return to the U.S. every three months to renew her tourist visa, which didn't help her already wearisome fish-out-of-water status. "It was difficult because I was moving somewhere where I didn't speak the language and I wasn't allowed to work. It was a new country, an impossible language, and I had no friends. I put a lot of pressure on him to help...
...right, the world's remaining stocks of bluefin tuna, 90% of which are in the Mediterranean, could be on the verge of extinction. Says Alain Fonteneau, a marine biologist at France's government-run Institute for Development Research in Montpellier: "If we do nothing, in five years we will fish the last bluefin tuna...
...Trout-Fishing As a recreational trout fisherman for some years, and a regular visitor to the Dullstroom waters referred to in Alex Perry's article "The Cull of the Wild," I must take issue [Oct.27]. It is rainbow trout, not brown trout, that are the dominant species in most dams and rivers throughout Mpumalanga. Secondly, as both species almost never breed in still water such as dams, these dams (as well as most fished rivers) have to be stocked on a regular basis on a "put and take" basis. Stocking is an expensive exercise, and usually the club or farmer...
Aside from providing homes for fish life and plants, coral reefs also produce billions of dollars in related eco-tourism and thousands of jobs in South Florida. They are also a buffer for beach erosion, a problem exacerbated by each new oceanside high-rise condo, as well as the storms and hurricanes that have battered Florida over the last four years. A joint federal and state study released in 2001 showed the reef-related economy - including money spent by eco-tourists for diving, chartering boats and the like - resulted in a $4 billion industry and more than 35,000 jobs...
...people who caused damage might never be found. "In this case, it's a big ocean and something passed through without anyone noticing what happened," says Erin McDevitt, a habitat coordinator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and one of four divers who assessed the underwater damage off Palm Beach on Tuesday. Unless someone comes forward, finding the culprit is extremely difficult. "It's a needle in a haystack...