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...From Winthrop House: Sophia K. Domokos ’03 and Peter A. O’Connell...
Parasite infestation is another chronic problem of high-density seafood farms. One of the most damaging organisms is the sea louse, which breeds by the millions in the vicinity of captive salmon. In 1989 Peter Mantle, who owns a wild salmon and sea-trout sport fishery in Delphi on the west coast of Ireland, discovered that young trout returning to his river from the ocean were covered with lice that were boring through the trouts' skin and feasting on their flesh. The sea lice were breeding near newly installed salmon farms in the inlet fed by his river...
Except in Maine, there's little talk of certification systems among salmon farmers. But there are quiet moves to clean up the industry from within. "A lot of farms were badly run," admits Peter Sawchuk, 49, who has been farming salmon in British Columbia since 1989 for Marine Harvest and Agrimarine. "They were overfed, poorly sited and there was too much drugging. But now we are getting better. We are not in the business of destroying our farms...
...long run, China remains a key global market. "We may not reach the (penetration rate) of Hong Kong," says Peter Lovelock, director of Beijing-based consultancy MFC Insight, "but there is no reason we can't get to 40%." Already, one-fourth of the world's cellular phones are sold here, and there are still plenty of customers like Shanghai high school student Song Yuyun. "Out with the old, in with the new," she said recently as she examined a sleek new phone to replace her older model. "I should be coming into some money over Chinese New Year...
Three days of angry letters to the editor and accusations of censorship later, the department had a change of heart and re-invited Paulin. Why? As Marquand Professor of English Peter Sacks told The Boston Globe, “Free speech was a principle that needed upholding here. This was a clear affirmation that the department stood strongly by the First Amendment...