Word: nylon
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Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...
...LaBudde, a biologist with Earthtrust, a Honolulu-based wildlife protection group, describes drift nets as "the single most destructive fishing technology ever devised by man." Drift nets work by entangling sea life in their nylon mesh. Ships later reel in the nets, taking out the squid or fish and discarding unlucky marine bystanders. It is like hunting for deer by poisoning every animal in the forest...
...huge webs of strong nylon mesh, known as drift nets, can cover a slice of ocean up to 40 miles wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
...artist at Cabot House, Snow has created Gargoyles to perch on top of the Georgian style dormitories. A dormer-window inspired sculpture, Gargoyles will sit more than 40 feet above the Quad and will respond to variances in the wind. A troika of forms made of steel, wood and nylon, the project will be illuminated at night and filled with natural light by day. Gargoyles addresses more vantage points than last year's picnic tables/artwork in that it can be seen from the Quad itself and also from inside college common rooms, student residences and Hilles Library...
...artist at Cabot House, Snow has created Gargoyles to perch on top of the Georgian style dormitories. A dormer-window inspired sculpture, Gargoyles will sit more than 40 feet above the Quad and will respond to variances in the wind. A troika of forms made of steel, wood and nylon, the project will be illuminated at night and filled with natural light by day. Gargoyles addresses more vantage points than last year's picnic tables/artwork in that it can be seen from the Quad itself and also from inside college common rooms, student residences and Hilles Library...