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...could be the tastiest Italian import since sliced prosciutto. ALESSANDRO SAFINA, 36, a smooth-voiced tenor whose self-titled CD has hit the States, is here to sell his brand of "melodious, romantic pop opera." Achieving crossover success is tricky, but Safina is on the right track. "I like music with passion," he says, "Rachmaninoff, Puccini...U2." Safina performed on the sound track of Moulin Rouge, singing backup to star Ewan McGregor on Elton John's Your Song, and he has also toured with Coolio, UB40 and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde. But the singer Liz Hurley calls "ravishingly sexy...
...nets over the sea floor to catch shrimp and ground feeders like cod, hake, haddock, halibut and flounder. In the process, the nets haul up everything in their path, contributing heavily to the nearly 30 million tons of damaged or dying "bycatch" that fishermen toss overboard each year. Carl Safina of the National Audubon Society calls it "scorched earth fishing...
...International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, a 36-nation body that regulates swordfishing as well as tuna fishing, has set quotas for member countries. "But it's too little too late," argues Carl Safina, director of the Living Oceans Program of the National Audubon Society, who favors a return to harpooning. "People are sick of seeing resources crashing. This goes beyond being an environmental problem; it's a public problem...
...from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes, is as politically intractable as it is intellectually simple: there is just too much fishing power chasing too few fish...