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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...
...ranging tuna fishermen wanted narrow territorial limits so that they could fish close to foreign shores; coastal fishermen urged the opposite-wide national zones to exclude foreign competitors...
...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 and whales would be left to existing (and not always effective) international fishing commissions...
...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...
...Despite the expected overstatement, your story on the various species of rock audiences did contain its modicum of truth. One thing your reviewer failed to note, however: some groups display a nearly schizophrenic change between concert, performance and album. The recent LPs of Hot Tuna and the Grateful Dead, for instance, have been finely wrought blends of virtuosity and lyricism...