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ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM Currents and winds have carried the slick through coastal fishing grounds and across nearly 200 miles of shoreline. The sludge has coated hundreds of seabirds and closed local fisheries. Now other areas are threatened: shellfish beds and a nature preserve for marine birds, including the near extinct Iberian guillemot...
Aquaculture was supposed to pick up the slack. It's already the world's fastest-growing food industry, with production increasing more than 10% a year. Farmed fish and shellfish supply 30% of all the seafood consumed worldwide today, up from 10% two decades...
...friendly scale, bivalves generally rate highest among the more than 220 species of fish and shellfish that are cultivated commercially. Mussels and oysters are filter-feeders that make the surrounding water cleaner, so small-scale farming of them is not usually harmful to the ecosystem. Farming of crayfish in China--the largest supplier to the U.S.--is a relatively low-maintenance, drug-free business carried out in rice paddies. Next come the vegetarian freshwater species that do not need large quantities of fish meal--carp, catfish and tilapia. At the bottom are salmon and shrimp, onetime luxury foods that, thanks...
Boatmen who catch wild fish and shellfish are often more strictly regulated than seafood farmers, whose wholesome image has helped them resist government oversight. But after eight years of discussion, shrimp farmers around the world are considering adoption of a universal certification process that would require them to comply with standards on the siting of ponds, effluent treatment, the reduction of chemicals and disease management. In exchange, their products would be labeled eco-friendly. By 2004, labels indicating whether seafood is farmed or wild will become mandatory in the U.S. (though they won't be required on restaurant menus). Jason...
...FRANCO GONZALES Undocumented immigrant finds $203,000 on L.A. street, gives all of it back. That's how the INS guessed he wasn't a real American BARNEY THE LOBSTER One-meter-long crustacean is saved from the pot by a merciful chef in London. When it comes to shellfish, size does matter Losers MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop opens trading at NASDAQ, only to see stocks tumble. The troubled exchange may have to tap a heavyweight like Pee Wee Herman JACQUES CHIRAC French President photographed in the buff by paparazzi while on holiday. Editors recoil, but you might...