Word: orly
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Granted, swordfish are an especially vulnerable target, being prized as both game fish and food fish. But they're hardly the only victims of the current global lunacy, of which the motto seems to be: if it swims, hook it, stab it, poison it or blow it up.
No one can know. Perhaps our grandchildren, or their grandchildren, will know. But I, for one, decline to accept the end of the oceans, for to do so would be to accept the end of humanity. I see signs that we are starting to alter our course--laboriously, yes, barely...
Daily, weapons of mass destruction are deployed in seas the world over: long lines spanning up to 80 miles, dangling scores of thousands of baited hooks; enormous nets, nearly invisible in water. These indiscriminate killers drown everything, including birds and mammals, that takes the bait or blunders into the mesh...
We know we have already wiped out--and by that I mean driven nearly to commercial extinction or, in a few cases, the brink of biological extinction--more than 100 popular species of food fish, including Nassau groupers, Chilean sea bass, orange roughy and cod. What we don't know...
The seas make up 95% of the planet's biosphere--the realm where all living things exist--and we are stripping and poisoning it, depriving it of its ability to sustain life. Jacques-Yves Cousteau once predicted that unless we--not the editorial or royal we but the universal we...