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Devastation that complete looks like an act of God, but residents here know that the truth is more complicated. For decades the oil-rig roughnecks and menhaden fishermen who have made their living on this fragile shore have seen drilling and dredging kill off the surrounding marshes and forests, leaving them defenseless against the rising waters. "Our parish was not only destroyed by nature," says Benny Rousselle, Plaquemines Parish president. "It was destroyed...
...international pressure, Chile introduced strict new regulations in January. But the problems surrounding fish farming are complex, and some are only dimly understood. Daniel Pauly, 55, a professor of fisheries science at the University of British Columbia, has calculated that it takes 2 to 5 lbs. of anchovies, sardines, menhaden and the other oily fish that comprise fish meal to produce 1 lb. of farmed salmon, which he says makes no sense in a world trying to increase the amount of available protein. Kentucky State University biologist James Tidwell, 47, a former president of the World Aquaculture Society, points...
...Chesapeake Bay Foundation, stood on a bridge over a picturesque stretch of King's Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific," said Goodall, wearing rubber gloves...
...first sign of trouble in the Chesapeake Bay tributaries came last fall, when local watermen started coming down with unusual health problems. Fishermen also reported sick fish, particularly menhaden, whose schooling habits make them especially vulnerable. But it was two fish kills in the Pocomoke River last month that signaled ecological crisis. In the first, more than 10,000 fish turned up dead. Three weeks later, thousands of distressed menhaden thrashed around the surface as sea gulls swooped down and ate them. The state set up an on-site monitoring station, with orders to close any waterway where more than...
...attract and retain industry, politicians gave away valuable land, tax abatements, municipal water, road improvements and exemptions from environmental protections. The paper mill smelled like rotten eggs, and the menhaden plant reeked of rotten fish, but the men who worked there would shrug and say, "All I smell...