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...Mike Park remembers when he first started working the cod boats out of Aberdeen, on Scotland's northeastern coast. "The fish were plentiful and the boats few," he says. That was nearly 30 years ago. "Then the boats became plentiful," says Park, 43, "and the fish few." Today fish populations have dwindled so dramatically that the European Union's fisheries Commissioner, Franz Fischler, is calling for an 80% reduction by 2003 in catches of the most popular commercial species in European waters. Fischler's proposal doesn't go far enough for some scientists, who warn that if even more drastic...
...short-term pain for long-term gain and cooperated with another closure, allowing the fish to recover to their currently high level. But cod is a special case, both because of their low numbers and the biological and environmental factors that will make recovery arduous. For fishermen like Mike Park, the prospect of a drastic reduction in quotas or a fishery closure spells doom. "I don't know what will happen," he says. "But I do know that any compromise to us translates into job losses and bankruptcies." The fishermen have every right to protest. But with supplies of their...
...Europe over the next few weeks. They won't admit they watch Enterprise, the sixth - sixth - TV series in the franchise. They tell buddies they are going to Vegas for blackjack and bourbon but instead dwell in the celestial sanctuary of Star Trek: The Experience, an indoor theme park that has drawn 2.3 million visitors since opening in 1998. They may even find urgent business reasons to be in London this week when "Star Trek - The Adventure" - the largest-ever interactive exhibition of sets, props and costumes - begins its world tour in a massive tent in Hyde Park. We know...
...includes a Confederate flagpole, has been mired in controversy for over two years. Still at question is whether this Rebel flag is a thoughtful "heritage" salute to the Confederate dead or a racist affront to African-Americans. The NAACP has poured untold resources into banning the flag because the park is funded by taxpayer dollars. Former Klansman David Duke and U.S. Senator Trent Lott have been the most high-profile proponents of keeping the flag, a symbol of their white Southern pride. A clear battle-line has been drawn in the state that Martin Luther King, Jr. once said...
Fortunately, Park Service biologists are still tracking the remaining populations in the park; their Canadian counterparts have resorted to managing the handful of remaining birds. Last fall, scientists in British Columbia moved what is believed to be the only surviving Canadian chick from this year’s brood into a protected enclosure in hopes of sheltering and raising it until it can be released. The chick is literally the last of the spotted owls in Canada...