| Bending Mars |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|01:27 pm] |
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I just read an awful article.
Bending Mars
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5990
Is putting humans on Mars important? Yes. Humans need land to live on, and, in a dynamic environment, they need land to move to. Closed systems are bad because they remove options. A single planet is a closed system. And the thing about land is, as a history teacher of mine used to say, they don’t make it anymore.
( Rest of article under here )
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| U.S. halts commercial salmon season |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|10:32 am] |
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U.S. halts commercial salmon season
Regulators are trying to protect slumping chinook population off California and Oregon.
By Eric Bailey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 11, 2008
From: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-salmon11apr11,1,7033457,full.story
EUREKA, CALIF. -- -- Instead of preparing to hit the Pacific's wind-tossed waters next month, veteran fisherman Dave Bitts sat at the counter of a dockside restaurant on Humboldt Bay recently, mulling fate and a cloudy future.
For the first time since the birth of the West Coast fishing industry 150 years ago, Bitts and other fishermen face a season without salmon.
Federal regulators, worried about sagging runs up and down the coast, agreed Thursday to cancel this year's commercial and recreational catch of chinook -- the prized king salmon of the fish market -- off California and Oregon.
The ban adopted by the Pacific Fishery Management Council after a weeklong meeting in Seattle marks the new low point for a trade enshrined in the West since the Gold Rush.
An aborted season will wallop coastal communities in which salmon has long been a financial and cultural mainstay. Repercussions are expected to ripple out, with the ban hurting not just fuel docks and tackle stores but also supermarkets and truck dealerships.
In California, commercial salmon fishing is a $150-million business.
( Hardest hit will be full-time fishermen like Bitts... )
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| Salmon fishing season in California and Oregon may be canceled (!) |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|10:41 am] |
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Off the Hook
Salmon fishing season in California and Oregon may be canceled So few salmon are swimming in California and Oregon that salmon fishing season is likely to be canceled completely unless an emergency exemption is granted, according to the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council. The states' salmon season, which traditionally runs from April to mid-November, has never been entirely canceled before. Even with a complete closure, fishery experts estimate that 59,100 chinook salmon will spawn this fall in California's Central Valley rivers, far below officials' minimum conservation goal of 122,000 fish. The council will make a final decision in April, affecting some 1,000 commercial fisherfolk, California's $4 billion recreational fishing industry, and hungry pescetarians.
sources: San Francisco Chronicle, The Mercury News, Sacramento Bee |
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