Word: steller
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...academic information. For as the seals and other marine mammals go, so goes the whole Bering Sea ecosystem. Spanning the oceanic divide between the U.S. and Russia, it is one of the richest and most commercially productive marine environments on earth, teeming with pollack and halibut, fur seals and Steller's sea lions, horn puffins and murres. The seals and seabirds depend on catching fish, and so do humans. More than 2,000 boats from the U.S., Russia, Japan, Norway, China, Poland and the Koreas haul in an annual catch worth roughly $1 billion. The portion taken off the shores...
...surface, that business is healthy: the pollack catch has stayed near record levels. But signs of overfishing and an ailing ecosystem can be seen higher up in the food chain. The fur-seal population has not increased despite a longstanding ban on commercial hunting. The number of Steller's sea lions, which feed mostly on pollack, has plunged 80% since the 1970s, and seabirds such as the red-legged kittiwake are also in trouble...
Although Cornell has started the season off slowly, it looked very good in a 8-3 victory over Yale. They also feature a steller goaltender in freshman and two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week Rich Yost. While the Crimson battle the Big Red this Saturday, the rest of the Ivy league picture will begin to sort itself out as league play gets into full swing. One of the most important league matchups will feature the Crimson's next two opponents: Brown and Princeton...
...Lawrence's steller Lappin-Lacroix-LaPerriere trio will be challenged by Clarkson's outstanding netminding. Golden Knights Chris Rogles and Jason Currie are second and third in the ECAC in save percentage, respectively...