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Remember a few years ago when you suddenly couldn't eat a tuna-fish sandwich without a pang of guilt--unless the tuna can bore a seal promising that no dolphins had inadvertently been harmed when the fish was caught? Soon there will be a new faux pas du jour: eating the endangered swordfish. If environmentalists have their way, most restaurants will take the delicacy off their menu, and those that don't will lose customers in the wake of a great swordfish boycott...
...swordfish but also sharks, sea turtles and other marine species. Most worrisome is that much of the catch consists of small swordfish, averaging 90 lbs. At this size, females have not reached reproductive weight or age. In 1995 an estimated 58% of the Atlantic swordfish catch was of immature fish...
Ultimately, the public will decide the fish's fate. Restoring Atlantic populations to healthy levels could take up to 10 years--a long time to forgo a favorite treat. But if swordfish becomes too scarce to catch, future generations may never taste...
...world. Part of a group of 90 or so gray wolves, they are among the first of their species to tread the snows of Yellowstone in 65 years. Hunted almost out of existence in the western U.S., gray wolves have been making a triumphant comeback since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced two groups into the park's 2.2 million acres and into another large patch of wilderness in nearby Idaho. In the three years since the animals' release, conservationists have nursed the nascent packs along in a program that is being lauded as one of the most successful...
...FISH STORY Just one serving of fish a week seems to cut in half the risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers don't know if the fat or something else in seafood is the reason. But beware: other studies show that fat from fish may increase the risk of breast cancer...