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Go Fish On eco-friendly fish consumption |
Umbra Fisk |
17 Nov 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I recently turned 40 and have decided I need to pay more attention to what I eat on a daily basis. My diet has never been horrible, and I've always believed in all things in moderation, but a persistently elevated cholesterol level and my mortality now a smudge on the horizon have helped nudge me in this direction. And everywhere I turn it's fish, fish, and more fish: doctors recommending more omega-3 oils (in the for ... |
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| Topics: advice, aquaculture, Ask Umbra, fishing, food and agriculture, green living, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Whole Shebang Fix Whole Ecosystem, Not Bits and Pieces, Klamath Water Report Says |
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22 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Whole Shebang Fix Whole Ecosystem, Not Bits and Pieces, Klamath Water Report Says Both environmentalists and farmers were vindicated by a report released yesterday by the National Research Council on the contested waters of Oregon's Klamath Basin. The report, the final and most comprehensive one in an ongoing battle over the region's water sources, recommended sweeping repairs to a damaged landsc ... |
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| Topics: fishing, food and agriculture, Oregon, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Salmon Chanted Evening Historic Deal Will Help Atlantic Salmon in Maine |
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07 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Salmon Chanted Evening Historic Deal Will Help Atlantic Salmon in Maine In an unprecedented move intended to save plummeting populations of threatened Atlantic salmon, a coalition of environmental groups, government agencies, a Native American tribe, and a power company yesterday announced a plan to take down dams along the Penobscot River, Maine's longest waterway. The project calls for raising $25 million from ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Maine, marine life (all these topics) |
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Foam Call Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court |
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15 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Foam Call Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court Fish farms off Canada's west coast are under fire from native tribes that claim the big aquaculture operations are devastating the natural environment. Four tribes living in the Broughton Archipelago, off the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island, are going to court to curb the spread of aquaculture, citing Canada's constit ... |
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| Topics: Canada, environmental justice, fishing, marine life, politics (all these topics) |
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Rove V. Waders White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon |
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10 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Rove V. Waders White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon President Bush lost in Oregon and Washington in the 2000 election, but his team is working to ensure that he fares better in the Pacific Northwest in 2004 -- and that may mean trouble for salmon. Bush's top strategy honcho, Karl Rove, has been making quiet trips to t ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, fishing, food and agriculture, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest |
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25 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest President Bush made a swing through Oregon and Washington state late last week to talk up his environmental agenda in an attempt to attract eco-concerned suburban voters, but he was met with thousands of protesters who didn't buy his promises to deliver "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Fo ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Northwest, politics, Portland, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing -- and no public input |
Shelley Smithson |
30 Jul 2003 |
Main Dish |
| Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, based in Champaign-Urbana, is one of dozens of experiments being conducted across the country in which scientists are altering the genetic structure of animals ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, fishing, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Maine Dish
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25 Jul 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Maine Dish After years of legal wrangling, Maine is finally ending its opposition to the federal government's decision to list the wild Atlantic salmon as endangered in several of the state's rivers. Gov. John Baldacci (D) announced yesterday that the state had come to an agreement with the feds and would not appeal a recent court decision in which a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state and Maine business gr ... |
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| Topics: fishing, Maine, marine life (all these topics) |
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Smoked Salmon Plan
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08 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Smoked Salmon Plan The Bush administration will have to rethink its salmon-management plan in the Columbia River Basin, following a federal court ruling yesterday that found the current plan inadequate to protect the endangered species and reduce the negative impact of hydroelectric dams. The ruling marks a major triumph for environmentalists and a serious blow to the White House ... |
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| Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics) |
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A Bunch of Pinkos
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24 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| A Bunch of Pinkos Angry consumers have taken three huge supermarket chains to court for failing to give customers the skinny on the salmon sold at the fish counter. Albertsons, Safeway, and Kroger (which owns QFC and Fred Meyer) are accused of deception, unfair business practices, breach of warranty, and negligent misrepresentation for failing to accurately label farm-raised salmon that were fed artificial nutrients. At issue ... |
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| Topics: fishing, food and agriculture (all these topics) |
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Gutter Talk
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21 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ... |
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| Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics) |
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? A Peruvian activist takes on the fishmeal industry |
Michelle Nijhuis |
18 Apr 2003 |
Main Dish |
| Maria Elena Foronda Farro was born to be an activist. Her father, a union lawyer in Chimbote, Peru, taught her -- through words and by example -- about the importance of social justice. Foronda, who grew up in Chimbote and earned a master's degree in sociology in Mexico, is now applying her father's lessons to her hometown. Maria Elena Foronda Farro. Photo: Richard Goldgewich ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, fishing, health, interview, Mexico, oceans, Peru (all these topics) |
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Fishy Business
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15 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Fishy Business For the second time this year, congressional Republicans have used behind-the-scenes trickery to weaken organic-labeling standards. Powerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, tacked a measure onto the recently passed $79 million war-spending bill that directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to come up with a plan for certifying and ... |
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| Topics: Department of Agriculture, fishing, food, organic food, Ted Stevens (all these topics) |
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Something Smells Fishy
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04 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Something Smells Fishy The Bush administration is proposing changes to its salmon-protection strategy that critics say would endanger salmon while boosting logging in the Pacific Northwest. As it now stands, federal rules prohibit timber sales and other activities on public lands unless officials can demonstrate that fish would not be harmed. Under revisions pr ... |
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| Topics: fishing, logging, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Trout Fishing in America
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21 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Trout Fishing in America Environmental groups sued the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Department this week to prevent the springtime release of more than 5 million hatchery-born salmon in the Puget Sound area. The groups, Washington Trout and the Native Fish Society, pointed to recent studies showing that hatchery fish are harming their wild-born brethren by out-competing them for space and food, and sometimes even eat ... |
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| Topics: fishing, marine life, Washington (all these topics) |
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F Is for Fish
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27 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| F Is for Fish The Bush administration received an "F" from the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition for failing to make progress on protecting endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The coalition, which is comprised of regional environmental and conservation organizations, said the administration has not implemented three-quarters of the measures mandated under a salmon-recovery plan adopted in 2000. Sin ... |
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| Topics: fishing, marine life, Northwest, politics (all these topics) |
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No Credence to Clearwater Revival
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06 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| No Credence to Clearwater Revival Stormwater runoff flowing into restored Seattle-area creeks and rivers appears to be killing salmon, according to a groundbreaking study by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Eighty-eight percent of coho salmon studied last fall died within hours of swimming into a stream that was being inundated by runoff. Rainwater pours ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Board Stiffs
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28 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Board Stiffs In what may be the most significant regulatory backdown in state history, the Oregon Board of Forestry yesterday sharply reduced its obligation to review private timber sales on landslide-prone land. In the past, the state forester was required to approve all such logging and could be held liable if an approved project later resulted in harm to a threatened or en ... |
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| Topics: erosion, fishing, land degradation, logging, marine life, Oregon, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Yurok Me Like a Hurricane
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07 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Yurok Me Like a Hurricane The Bush administration is to blame for last fall's die-off of 33,000 salmon along the Klamath River in Northern California, biologists from the state's Department of Fish and Game have determined. They say the fish kill -- the largest ever recorded in the West -- was the result of the administration's ... |
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| Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West (all these topics) |
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Dam Straight!
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21 Nov 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Dam Straight! In what environmentalists hope is the beginning of a major trend, 60 dams across the U.S. are slated for demolition this year and hundreds more are targeted for removal. Last week, for example, Portland General Electric signed a deal to remove the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River in Oregon and a smaller dam on the Little Sandy. Typically, dams being dismantled are no lon ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, fishing, hydropower, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics) |
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Whistle While You Work
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29 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Whistle While You Work In a new twist to the Klamath River controversy, Michael Kelly, a biologist with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, is blowing the whistle on the Bush administration for drafting and approving a water plan that he says provides inadequate protections for endangered salmon. The accusations come after the U.S. Bureau of Rec ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Fantasy Islands
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24 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Fantasy Islands California has permanently banned fishing in 175 square miles of ocean around the Channel Islands, creating a network of marine reserves that will enable a wide range of species to recover from decades of overfishing. In the next year or two, the U.S. government will decide whether to expand the network of reserves into federal waters, which begin three miles off shore; under such an expansion, the network could ... |
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| Topics: California, fishing, oceans (all these topics) |
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When the Fish and Chips Are Down
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22 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| When the Fish and Chips Are Down Farmed salmon is coming under fire for the dangers it may pose to human health and the environment. A government study in the U.K. has found that salmon from fish farms is the most contaminated food sold by British supermarkets, beating out all other seafood, as well as meats and vegetables. Every sample of farmed salmon tested in the study contained at least three to ... |
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| Topics: fishing, green living, health, toxics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Klam Bake
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26 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Klam Bake In the latest turn of events in the Water Crisis That Won't Die, state officials in California are considering releasing water into the Klamath River to rescue thousands of salmon dying from unusually high water temperatures in the river. Scientists have counted more than 9,500 dead Chinook salmon near the river's mouth since Friday, and thousands more have proba ... |
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| Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Sea, Sea, My Playmate
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19 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Sea, Sea, My Playmate More than 200 small grocers, restaurants, and seafood distributors in 40 U.S. states have announced that they will not buy, sell, or serve genetically altered fish. Among those joining the biotech boycott are such celebrity chefs as Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and Michael Schenk at Oceana in New York City. Whole Foods Market, the world's largest natural foods retailer, also signed on, b ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, fishing, food, GMOs (all these topics) |
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