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...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...
Thomas P. Salmon, 42, in 1973 became Vermont's second Democratic Governor in 119 years. He was helped by a divisive GOP primary and a shirtsleeve campaign against development: "Vermont is not for sale " A lawyer who was a judge at 30 and the youngest minority leader in the history of the state house of representatives at 35, Salmon has helped enact stringent laws to control land development and speculation. Rather than seek retiring Senator George Aiken's seat he is running for a second term, intending to complete the programs he has begun...
...resigned as managing editor of the Boston Traveler when its publisher retracted an exposé of mayoral malfeasance; then he successively edited the Boston Journal, New York Tribune and the Nation, and became a diehard New Dealer. Named Governor of Alaska by President Roosevelt in 1939, Gruening forced absentee salmon and gold interests to pay their fair share of territorial taxes. After agitating successfully for Alaska's statehood, he went to the Senate in 1959 where, five years later, only he and Wayne Morse voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing U.S. action in the Viet...