Word: salmon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureaucracy continued to move ahead with its own ponderous momentum. A $13.6 billion agricultural and environmental bill was vetoed as inflationary; legislation was signed providing cost-of-living Social Security increases; three people were nominated to be federal judges; and a new member was named to the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission...
...South China Sea, Russia against Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk, and Greece against Turkey in the Aegean (though oil is certainly not the issue in Cyprus). Meanwhile, in all the world's major fisheries, fishermen of various nationalities are wrangling acrimoniously over catches of cod, tuna, salmon, herring, whales. Such quarrels in the past have triggered bitter diplomatic disputes, as in last year's "cod war" between Britain and Iceland and in the earlier "tuna wars" between the U.S. and Peru...
...nations be given 1) a twelve-mile territorial sea, and 2) a 200-mile-wide "economic zone" for exploitation of minerals and fish-all contingent upon free transit of ships through all straits. Nations bordering on the sea would control fish species classified as coastal (cod, haddock) and anadromous (salmon and other varieties that breed in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives in the open seas); they would have first rights to harvest these species and would be allowed to license foreigners to take the rest. Management of wide-ranging oceanic species such as tuna, swordfish...
...global seafood haul has more than doubled since 1950, and the sustainable catch limits have already been reached in some species: the American lobster, halibut, haddock, tuna, cod and salmon. French Diplomat Michel Lennuyeaux-Comnene, a spokesman on fisheries policies, says that the seas are being so badly overfished that there may well be "no more fishing" in only 20 years. He warns: "We're literally eating our capital...
Some fisheries experts are putting great faith in aquaculture, or sea farming. In Washington, Biologist Jon Lindbergh, son of the aviator, is pioneering in the farming of salmon. After the fish come home to spawn, their eggs are collected and hatched in incubators. The fry are then raised until they are large enough to be kept in offshore pens for harvesting. On St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lamont-Doherty scientists have successfully grown oysters, clams and scallops in artificial ponds, using nutrient-rich water piped in from the depths of the Caribbean...