Word: shellfishing
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...result, many types of shrimp fishing had been prohibited by 1970 because of the tendency of the shellfish to accumulate toxins. The harbor's famous lobster population was all but decimated. The Charles, Chelsea, Mystic, and Neponset River estuaries--the portions of the rivers where fresh and salt water converge--were also nearly devoid of the diverse wildlife that is typical of such areas...
...lower Mississippi is the greatest freshwater coastal marshland in North America, a resplendently prolific nursery for fish, shellfish, furbearers and reptiles and a wintering haven for a third of North America's waterfowl. The saltwater invasion has cost the Cajun economy, rooted in fishing and trapping and hunting, dearly. But payment will soon be demanded farther north. Hydrologists are now proposing formerly unthinkable ideas--such as breaching the levees from New Orleans to the river's mouth--if only to spread enough silt to slow the Gulf's encroachment on the city. Even if that's done (it would probably...
...must be admitted that it will take a while before I can stomach another mussel), clams, and, impossibly enough, more calamari drown a sizeable platter. A spicier, more complex version of the calamari appetizer's tomato sauce married the flavors of the fish. There was indeed risotto underneath the shellfish, though it was only made accessible after much digging. Layers of clothing were shed in the grueling process. A word of advice: it is an exercise in absurd and repetitive gluttony to order either mussels or calamari as an appetizer followed by this seafood risotto. Veal Saltimbocca, of questionable relation...
...also working with other researchers to develop long-acting local anesthetics from toxins found in some fish, shellfish and algae--the same toxins that cause poisoning victims to feel numb and weak all over. Berde is pursuing the toxins because they work for two or three days and seem free of the side effects of existing drugs, which occasionally cause convulsions or disturbances in heart rhythm...
...this decade. The declines are not simply a result of overfishing, but also of practices that destroy the ocean-floor habitats that feed and protect schools of commercial fish. Factory trawlers scare up schools by dragging heavy chains over the sea bottom, uprooting aquatic plants and killing coral and shellfish. Migrating fish, such as salmon, are caught before they can spawn, thus killing their progeny as well. This one-two punch has contributed to the endangerment of many species, even those that are not pursued for their food value. The good news? Once the damaging practices end, depleted fisheries have...