Word: pacificism
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For six months now a splotch of tropical warmth has been spreading across the Pacific Ocean, from the international dateline to the South American coast. With understandable concern, climatologists have been tracking its progress, for it signifies that El Nino--that mischievous gremlin of the atmosphere and oceans--is once...
Halfway across the Pacific, marine biologist A. Peter Klimley of the University of California at Davis has for decades been getting his own incredible insights into shark behavior, frequently by taking risks others would call insane. While a graduate student in the 1970s, Klimley became the first scientist ever to...
In the Pacific, conservationists' most immediate concern is finning. Every year at least 50,000 blue sharks landed by longline fishermen off Hawaii are stripped of their valuable fins and tossed back in the water. While the regional fisheries councils responsible for U.S. Pacific waters haven't yet addressed this...
But what has amplified the destructive power of modern fishing more than anything else is its gargantuan scale. Trawling for pollock in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska, for example, are computerized ships as large as football fields. Their nets--wide enough to swallow a dozen Boeing 747s...
Now all hell breaks loose. In rapid order I hear from Mendiero Barrett, Dysson's V.P. of Pan-Pacific Integration ("Dysson is currently conducting a private inquiry into the suicide of Denny Reikert...") and from a recruiter who offers me, of all things, a job at Dysson and guides me...