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Here Today, Gone Tomalley What's killing off lobsters in Long Island Sound?	Christine Woodside	20 Jun 2000	Main Dish
Richard A. French, a specialist in animal disease at the University of Connecticut, often comes to work wearing a lobster tie tack he bought at a shellfish conference. He's had lobsters on the brain lately, particularly the mystery of why hundreds of thousands of lobsters have died within the last year in Long Island Sound. In a sea of troubles. Photo: OAR/NURP. In the western end of the ...
Topics: fishing, New York, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The Coast Is Clear -- of Salmon Atlantic salmon are even worse off than their Pacific cousins	Wayne Curtis	12 Apr 2000	Main Dish
To catch an Atlantic salmon in the Machias River back in the 1940s -- and we're talking a legitimate salmon here, maybe 30 or 40 pounds -- didn't require a knack with rod and reel, nor even the wily patience of the angler. Mostly what you needed was decent aim with a rifle or pitchfork or jig hook. The mighty Machias. Or for that matter, a good-sized river stone. "I reme ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Old McDonald Had a Fish Do you know where your salmon comes from?	Richard Manning	09 Feb 2000	Arts and Minds
Salmon Nation Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman, Ecotrust, 1999, 80 pages This essay is excerpted from the new book Salmon Nation: People and Fish at the Edge, published by the environmental group Ecotrust. Thirty percent of the world's salmon now come from hatcheries, but wild fish account for only another twenty to thirty percent. Almost all of those wild fish come from waters around Al ...
Topics: Canada, fishing, food, United States (all these topics)

Not the Only Fish in the Sea Are efforts to protect the dolphin putting other fish in a sea of trouble?	Rick Gaffney	28 Oct 1999	Main Dish
There were predictable cries of protest from some conservationists who focus on charismatic megafauna when revised standards for use of the "dolphin safe" tuna label were announced by the Commerce Department in April. Though the new rules stipulate that no dolphins should be killed or seriously injured, they do let canners label their product "dolphin ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Run, Salmon, Run!	Suzy Becker	05 Jul 1999	Ha.

Topics: fishing (all these topics)

Of Fish and Folks Lisa Hymas reviews Totem Salmon by Freeman House	Lisa Hymas	14 May 1999	Arts and Minds
Totem Salmon by Freeman House Beacon Press, 1999, 228 pages In the wake of the federal government's much trumpeted decision in March to confer threatened and endangered status upon nine salmon runs in Washington and Oregon, Northwesterners will need to reevaluate their relationship with this once mighty species, a cultural icon as well as biological keystone. An ideal beginning would be to delve into F ...
Topics: fishing, Northwest (all these topics)

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