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One reason governments have been slow to respond to the environmental crisis is that Earth is still churning out plenty of goods--enough fiber, grain and fish to support 6 billion people. Many are malnourished, of course, but that's primarily a matter of bad distribution. A closer look at...
The lower Mississippi is the greatest freshwater coastal marshland in North America, a resplendently prolific nursery for fish, shellfish, furbearers and reptiles and a wintering haven for a third of North America's waterfowl. The saltwater invasion has cost the Cajun economy, rooted in fishing and trapping and hunting, dearly...
--Most people think oil spills cause the most harm to ocean life. They don't. Fishing does. When a tanker wrecks, news crews flock to film gooey beaches and dying animals. Journalists rush right past the picturesque fishing boats whose huge nets and 1,000-hook long-lines wreak far...
Fishing annually extracts more than 80 million tons of sea creatures worldwide. An additional 20 million tons of unwanted fish, seabirds, marine mammals and turtles get thrown overboard, dead. Overfishing has depleted major populations of cod, swordfish, tuna, snapper, grouper and sharks. Instead of sensibly living off nature's interest...
Enforcing fishing limits--to give the most devastated fish populations a chance to rebuild--could ultimately enable us to catch at least 10 million more tons of sea life than we do now. Government-subsidized shipbuilders and fleets drive much of the overfishing. Eliminating those subsidies--as New Zealand has...