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...fish will need a long time to produce a big, healthy spawning stock. "There is more pessimism now than at any time about returning to healthy cod stocks," says Rice. "We are talking in Canada now about closures that will last a decade." But fishermen know how effective a moratorium can be. A two-year closure of the North Sea herring fishery in the mid-1970s allowed an overfished stock to recover. So when the herring fishery seemed likely to collapse again in the mid-1990s, fishermen knew it would be short-term pain for long-term gain and cooperated...
...article, Dershowitz proposed that whenever Palestinian terrorism resumes after a moratorium, Israel should retaliate with military action against a Palestinian village after giving residents 24 hours’ notice...
...vote by the University’s oldest governing board ends a moratorium begun last year on new degree-granting programs with a distance learning component that violated the rule. University President Lawrence H. Summers established the moratorium after discovering the violation...
...most depleted oceans, populations of popular fish (cod, flounder, haddock, hake and tuna) are just one-sixth of what they were a century ago. A European Union panel last week backed calls for a total ban on the fishing of cod in the North Atlantic and a moratorium on the fishing of haddock and whiting there...
...trade war between the European Union and the U.S. over genetically modified organisms (GMOS). Though genetically modified foods are consumed by millions of Americans without apparent ill effects, many Europeans are wary of them. Some imports are allowed into the Union, but a handful of member states placed a moratorium on approvals for new imports in 1998. The U.S., the world's biggest grower of GM crops, wants to be able to export its GM food. Green groups and some European officials charge America with deliberately sending GM maize to Southern Africa to force a showdown, while American officials believe...