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PARIS: Died: Jacques Cousteau, who brought the fantastic, muticolored undersea world of ice formations, shipwrecks and just plain mackerel to America's television masses, after more than 60 years of underwater exploration. "Jacques-Yves Cousteau has rejoined the World of Silence," the Cousteau Foundation succinctly announced, leaving unstated the cause of the 87-year-old oceanographer's death. As a child, Cousteau was notable for his passion for breaking high school windows. As an adult, after completing France's prestigious Naval Academy, he poured that energy into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more...
Until then, however, it will go on raining mackerel and speckled trout and stones upon the human mind...
Several thousand Spanish fishermen pelted the Canadian Embassy in Madrid with raw eggs and dead mackerel to protest what they said was Canada's harassment of Spanish trawlers in the North Atlantic. In the latest turn in the month-long conflict overfishing and conservationin Canadian waters, Canadian patrol boats allegedly tried to snip the nets off two Spanish trawlers, and by some accounts actually boarded the vessels. Canadian officials, who have stopped European boats recently to prevent overfishing of turbot, flatly denied the charges. Still, the uproar caused international talks over the issue in Brussels to be suspended...
Commercially important fish such as tuna, mackerel and sardines are threatened as well, as are hawksbill and green turtles. Sea mammals are also vulnerable, including dolphins, whales and dugongs, an endangered species similar to Florida's manatees. Only about 7,000 of these docile, 1.5-ton vegetarians are in the gulf, one of the world's largest populations...
...good way to catch a reader's attention is to start off with a bang. This book does so. Chapter 1, first sentence: "The most perilous work in America is the harvest by hand of sugarcane in South Florida." Holy mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later...