Word: shellfishing
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...wetlands and estuaries are being increasingly threatened by man's onslaught: between 1950 and 1969, almost 650,000 acres were lost to dredging and filling. According to the Natural Estuary Study compiled by the Interior Department, more than one-fourth of the 1,400,000 acres designated as shellfish areas are polluted. An area-by-area survey made last week by TIME correspondents indicates that the despoliation continues unabated...
...effluents are fouling the water. Untreated sewage and industrial wastes discharged into portions of the Penobscot River in Maine have created sludge beds in the river and bay, and the oxygen levels of the water have been drastically reduced. This, in turn, is believed to be responsible for decreasing shellfish harvests in the Penobscot region...
...bridges. Car commuters trying to get into the city were backed up for hours on the hottest day of the year. When sewage-treatment workers joined the strike, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage were dumped into New York's waterways, threatening to pollute beaches and shellfish beds. Parks Department employees locked up the tennis courts, and zoo keepers kept the animals inside, though they continued to feed them...
...consists of essays on 15 categories of food-such as lemons, chocolate, garlic, potatoes, shellfish, mushrooms, nuts, cheese-followed by recipes. The essays offer detailed information about the properties of each food and how it reacts to mixing and heating. The would-be cheese cook who achieves Silly Putty instead of a creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like...
Thermal pollution can be equally useful. Not only trout but oysters and other shellfish have been grown more rapidly in the hot effluent from power plants. Indeed, one New York producer, who raises his oysters in the Long Island Lighting Co.'s cooling ponds, says that they reach full size in less than three years (v. four to five years normally). Even more spectacular results have been reported by the Scots. By placing sole and plaice in water discharged from an atomic generator, they have raised the fish in six to eight months (v. three to four years...