Word: herring
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...Thousands of sea otters, seals and eagles and a quarter of a million seabirds died as a result of the spill, one of the worst ecological disasters in history, and the populations of those species have yet to fully recover. The lucrative herring and salmon fisheries are still damaged - by one estimate, the spill cost local fishermen nearly $300 million. "On the surface, Prince William Sound looks like it has regained its majesty," says Keith Colburn, an Alaskan fisherman and one of the stars of the reality TV series The Deadliest Catch. "But below the surface it's completely different...
According to Herring, the launch time is chosen in order to optimize the use of propellant for the shuttle’s trip to the International Space Station...
...Orbital mechanics dictate the launch time,” said Kyle J. Herring, a NASA Spokesman...
...final component of the ISS will be delivered at the end of 2010 on the space shuttle’s final mission before its expected retirement, according to Herring...
...they're getting worse. In new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations, including tuna, herring and prawns. Fish would flee toward the poles to escape rising temperatures, and many species would all but disappear from their familiar habitats. Many would not survive the transition - Cheung estimated that the Atlantic cod's distribution could drop by up to 50% by 2050 thanks to climate change...