Friday, June 8, 2012
World's Ocean Day
Wear blue, tell two. Today is World's Ocean Day and we are Celebrating the life and love of Dr. Ransom Myers.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
In Halifax June 7, 8, 9 & 10 to celebrate Ram's 60th birthday.
Ram's sister Susan Would like to visit with friends and fans of Ram. Visiting Halifax from North Carolina June 7 to 10. Ram would have been 60 on June 13. Email me at susangmyers@gmail.com
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
New Year's Goal - Eat Sustainable Seafood
In rememberance of RAM, I am going to learn the who, what, when and where of subtainable seafood. In the words of Ram's friend, David Suzuki, "we define sustainable seafood as being fished or farmed in a manner that can maintain or increase production in the long term, without jeopardizing the health or function of the web of life in our oceans."
My husband and I have an insatiable appetite for strimp and sushi salmon. Even though there are no "sustainable seafood" vendors anywhere near my rural homebase, I am only an hour or so from the Atlantic and should be able to figure this out!
My husband and I have an insatiable appetite for strimp and sushi salmon. Even though there are no "sustainable seafood" vendors anywhere near my rural homebase, I am only an hour or so from the Atlantic and should be able to figure this out!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A tribute to leave you breathless
"On the day that friends and colleagues heard that Ransom Myers died, the front pages of the many papers he had authored and co-authored over a prolific career appeared along the stairwell of the LSC’s biology wing.
It was the stairwell Dr. Myers would bounce up each morning, greeting students along the way, sloshing coffee from a china mug, conversing with his lab mates and reading a scientific paper — usually all at the same time. Dr. Myers, who died in 2007 of a brain tumor at the age of 54, was known for his boundless energy, passion and curiosity.
The spontaneous tribute was the work of two graduate students: Daniel Ricard and Coilin Minto. Now their effort has been made into a permanent memorial for a brilliant scientist and former head of what’s affectionately referred to as the “RAMpire.” (Dr. Myers was often called by his initials, RAM.)
At a lunchtime event on March 31, more than 50 people assembled in the biology wing and walked up the stairwell together—past “Phototaxis and cannibalism in gammaridean amphipods” and “Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) pup production in the Gulf of St. Lawrence” and all the way up to “Saving endangered whales at no cost.” Starting off with a photo of Dr. Myers nose-to-nose with a gigantic leatherback turtle on the second floor, the tribute continues up to the eighth floor—a testament to his staggering output.
“How far would we get if we put a paper on each step?” said Mr. Ricard, explaining the genesis of the project. “We started taping.”
There are actually more papers—175—than steps. They include Dr. Myers’ landmark research papers on declining fish populations in the world’s oceans, published in such journals as Nature, Science, Ecology and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
“I didn’t know how they appeared,” explains Keith Taylor, former Dean of Science, of the initial tribute three years ago, “but the impact was massive. It’s a very unique memorial to a scientist.”
Within days of his death, there were more papers to add to the stairwell. On March 27, 2007, a study by Dr. Myers and Julia Baum was published in the journal Science reporting that the over-fishing of large predatory sharks was having a cascading effect throughout the food chain. There have been at least 15 other posthumous publications.
For the students, taping up those papers helped them mourn their mentor. “It left us with a humbling feeling of what we could do in our careers,” says Mr. Ricard.
Publishing was Dr. Myers’ way of getting his research out; they were calls to action, opening salvos in ongoing arguments. Mr. Ricard recalls asking Dr. Myers’ how he would respond to his critics—“all the tuna people I worked with were up in arms,” he informs. To which Dr. Myers responded, “Let them publish.” " http://dalnews.dal.ca/2010/03/31/myers.html By Marilyn Smulders
It was the stairwell Dr. Myers would bounce up each morning, greeting students along the way, sloshing coffee from a china mug, conversing with his lab mates and reading a scientific paper — usually all at the same time. Dr. Myers, who died in 2007 of a brain tumor at the age of 54, was known for his boundless energy, passion and curiosity.
The spontaneous tribute was the work of two graduate students: Daniel Ricard and Coilin Minto. Now their effort has been made into a permanent memorial for a brilliant scientist and former head of what’s affectionately referred to as the “RAMpire.” (Dr. Myers was often called by his initials, RAM.)
At a lunchtime event on March 31, more than 50 people assembled in the biology wing and walked up the stairwell together—past “Phototaxis and cannibalism in gammaridean amphipods” and “Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) pup production in the Gulf of St. Lawrence” and all the way up to “Saving endangered whales at no cost.” Starting off with a photo of Dr. Myers nose-to-nose with a gigantic leatherback turtle on the second floor, the tribute continues up to the eighth floor—a testament to his staggering output.
“How far would we get if we put a paper on each step?” said Mr. Ricard, explaining the genesis of the project. “We started taping.”
There are actually more papers—175—than steps. They include Dr. Myers’ landmark research papers on declining fish populations in the world’s oceans, published in such journals as Nature, Science, Ecology and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
“I didn’t know how they appeared,” explains Keith Taylor, former Dean of Science, of the initial tribute three years ago, “but the impact was massive. It’s a very unique memorial to a scientist.”
Within days of his death, there were more papers to add to the stairwell. On March 27, 2007, a study by Dr. Myers and Julia Baum was published in the journal Science reporting that the over-fishing of large predatory sharks was having a cascading effect throughout the food chain. There have been at least 15 other posthumous publications.
For the students, taping up those papers helped them mourn their mentor. “It left us with a humbling feeling of what we could do in our careers,” says Mr. Ricard.
Publishing was Dr. Myers’ way of getting his research out; they were calls to action, opening salvos in ongoing arguments. Mr. Ricard recalls asking Dr. Myers’ how he would respond to his critics—“all the tuna people I worked with were up in arms,” he informs. To which Dr. Myers responded, “Let them publish.” " http://dalnews.dal.ca/2010/03/31/myers.html By Marilyn Smulders
Sunday, August 30, 2009
RAM to be honored at American Fisheries Society meeting in Nashville 8/31/09
My sister, my husband and I are in Nashville at the AFS meeting. We're here because our brother RAM is to be honored at the meeting. Since neither his widow or children could attend this one, we got invited! We are looking to meet friends of RAM who are attending or speaking at the meeting. We will staying at the meeting place Sunday night and leave Monday afternoon.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
RAM's Birthday June 13
Remember RAM on his birthday. He was born on Friday the 13th! This is one of the last pictures I took of him and is how i remember him.....thinking and smiling.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
World Ocean Day
...remembering RAM, Dr. Ransom Myers, the world's greatest Ocean Scientist , on World Ocean Day.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Ram's Mermaid
Desperately Seeking Susan is seeking a picture of Ram's mermaid. Please post a pik here or email it to her.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
RAM inducted in N.S. Hall of Fame
"Nova Scotia’s best and brightest minds were honoured last night at The 2007 Discovery Awards for Science and Technology. The 5th annual gala event celebrated dedicated individuals from the fields of science and technology whose locally, nationally and internationally recognized work is being carried out right here in Nova Scotia.
The awards are held as a Discovery Centre fundraiser and as a unique way to recognize the exceptional talents of Nova Scotians working in science and technology.
Three people were also inducted into the Nova Scotia Hall of Fame for Science and Technology: Dr. Frederic Sexton, founder of Nova Scotia Technical College, Dr. Ransom Myers, a world leader in large marine animal analysis, and Dr. Robert Ackman, co-founder of Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology.
The awards are held as a Discovery Centre fundraiser and as a unique way to recognize the exceptional talents of Nova Scotians working in science and technology.
Three people were also inducted into the Nova Scotia Hall of Fame for Science and Technology: Dr. Frederic Sexton, founder of Nova Scotia Technical College, Dr. Ransom Myers, a world leader in large marine animal analysis, and Dr. Robert Ackman, co-founder of Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Discovery Centre has announced that it will posthumously induct Dr. Ransom Myers, world leader in large marine animal analysis, into the Nova Scotia Science and Technology Hall of Fame. Myers dedicated his career to studying marine life in Nova Scotia and around the world.
Among Myers’ many breakthroughs, his research revealed that a few decades ago, tuna were twice the size they are today, and that marlins the size of killer whales once swam the world’s oceans. At the forefront of his work, Dr. Myers’ provided evidence, which he and a co-worker produced and published, that demonstrated that 90 per cent of the world’s large fish population has vanished completely.......
The Hall of Fame induction will take place at the 2007 Discovery Awards for Science and Technology on November 29 at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel.
Discovery Centre has announced that it will posthumously induct Dr. Ransom Myers, world leader in large marine animal analysis, into the Nova Scotia Science and Technology Hall of Fame. Myers dedicated his career to studying marine life in Nova Scotia and around the world.
Among Myers’ many breakthroughs, his research revealed that a few decades ago, tuna were twice the size they are today, and that marlins the size of killer whales once swam the world’s oceans. At the forefront of his work, Dr. Myers’ provided evidence, which he and a co-worker produced and published, that demonstrated that 90 per cent of the world’s large fish population has vanished completely.......
The Hall of Fame induction will take place at the 2007 Discovery Awards for Science and Technology on November 29 at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel.
Monday, September 24, 2007
RAM working on vacation
I took this picture just over a year ago. Ram was working during his family vacation in Cape Breton. And now, it's almost a six months since he left us... involuntarly and unwillingly. Ram had so much more work to do, so many ideas, and yes, so much love for all of us. Damn Brain Cancer! 
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Was RAM an "Ocean Historian?"
"Dusting off sales records, fishery yearbooks and other sources, researchers Brian R. MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark and the late Ransom Myers of Canada’s Dalhousie University show majestic bluefins teemed in northern European waters (North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Skaggerak, Kattegat, and Oresund ) for a few months each summer until an industrialized fishery geared up in the 1920s and literally filled the floors of European market halls with them.
The research, to appear in a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Fisheries Research, shows that generations ago Atlantic bluefins typically arrived in the northern waters by the thousands in late June and departed by October at the latest, their foraging travels likely related to seasonal warming."
http://www.huliq.com/29399/historians-detail-collapse-of-bluefin-tuna-population-off-northern-europe
The research, to appear in a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Fisheries Research, shows that generations ago Atlantic bluefins typically arrived in the northern waters by the thousands in late June and departed by October at the latest, their foraging travels likely related to seasonal warming."
http://www.huliq.com/29399/historians-detail-collapse-of-bluefin-tuna-population-off-northern-europe
Monday, August 6, 2007
Bluefin Tuna/Northern Europe/New Study by RAM &I Brain R. MacKenzie
Marine historians chart collapse of bluefin stocks
Updated Sun. Aug. 5 2007 12:38 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
For the first time, ocean historians have been able to create a detailed picture of the "burst of fishing" from 1900 to 1950 that led to the collapse of bluefin tuna stocks off the coast of northern Europe.
The research, released Sunday afternoon, was completed by Brian R. MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark and the late Ransom Myers of Canada's Dalhousie University.
Myers, who died earlier this year, had worked on some of the most important surveys of global fish stocks.
Some of the research was completed with the Tag-A-Giant (TAG) program, which uses electronic tags to track migrations of giant bluefins off Ireland and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Barbara Block, a marine sciences professor at Stanford University and chief scientist of the CoML Tagging of Pacific Predators program and TAG, told CTV.ca the tagging technology has been active for 14 years and has led to a greater understanding of the North Atlantic fisheries.
"We are using some of the coolest technology on the planet," she said. "We are putting something the equivalent in price of a laptop computer inside the tuna ... and like a submarine, we are asking 'where is it going?'"
There are three bluefin species of tuna: Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Bluefin, and they are one of the most lucrative commercial fish in the sea. Their quickly declining numbers has been a great concern to scientists and sushi lovers around the world.
The Atlantic bluefin have two populations -- one in the East Atlantic, and one in the West Atlantic. The 45th meridian divides the two populations for purposes of the study.
The study began with a bit of history -- looking at the almost mythical bluefins that once teemed in northern European waters (North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Skaggerak, Kattegat, and Oresund) for a few months each summer.
The smallest weighed 40 kilograms, but there were also giants of up to 700 kilograms. They began disappearing when an industrialized fishery geared up in the 1920s, using harpoon rifles and hydraulic lift nets.
By 1960, the species had virtually disappeared from the region.
"We've shown bluefin tuna were here for a long time in high numbers," MacKenzie said in a news release. "High fishing pressure preceded the species' virtual disappearance from the area and apparently played a key role but other factors under study might have compounded the fishery's demise -- the catch of juvenile tuna in subsequent years, for example.
Tagging shows travel patterns
The research team hopes their work will inspire "a more precautionary approach to the management of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic."
Today, Atlantic bluefin stocks are down 80 to 90 per cent compared to historical breeding populations.
CoML-associated scientists working with the Tag-A-Giant (TAG) program tracked migration patterns, and learned that fish tagged within minutes of each other wound up more than 5,000 km apart eight months later.:
One swam 6,000 km, past Bermuda to waters about 300 kilometres northeast of Cuba
The other remained in the eastern Atlantic and moved off the coasts of Portugal
A third tagged bluefin swam into the Mediterranean Sea and was caught by fishers southeast of Malta in 2005
Tuna have generally been harder to track than other fish stocks. The species keeps body temperature independent of the ambient environment. This allows it to go into very cold, northern waters -- and travel much longer migration routes than other fish.
The electronic tags allow scientists to determine exactly where the tuna breed, and the oceanographic conditions they are selecting.
"That's the first time for a large tuna species that we've had this kind of data to say this," Block said. "This information can help scientists and policy-makers best protect the remaining tuna while they are spawning."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070803/bluefin_tuna_070803/20070805?hub=TopStories
Updated Sun. Aug. 5 2007 12:38 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
For the first time, ocean historians have been able to create a detailed picture of the "burst of fishing" from 1900 to 1950 that led to the collapse of bluefin tuna stocks off the coast of northern Europe.
The research, released Sunday afternoon, was completed by Brian R. MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark and the late Ransom Myers of Canada's Dalhousie University.
Myers, who died earlier this year, had worked on some of the most important surveys of global fish stocks.
Some of the research was completed with the Tag-A-Giant (TAG) program, which uses electronic tags to track migrations of giant bluefins off Ireland and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Barbara Block, a marine sciences professor at Stanford University and chief scientist of the CoML Tagging of Pacific Predators program and TAG, told CTV.ca the tagging technology has been active for 14 years and has led to a greater understanding of the North Atlantic fisheries.
"We are using some of the coolest technology on the planet," she said. "We are putting something the equivalent in price of a laptop computer inside the tuna ... and like a submarine, we are asking 'where is it going?'"
There are three bluefin species of tuna: Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Bluefin, and they are one of the most lucrative commercial fish in the sea. Their quickly declining numbers has been a great concern to scientists and sushi lovers around the world.
The Atlantic bluefin have two populations -- one in the East Atlantic, and one in the West Atlantic. The 45th meridian divides the two populations for purposes of the study.
The study began with a bit of history -- looking at the almost mythical bluefins that once teemed in northern European waters (North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Skaggerak, Kattegat, and Oresund) for a few months each summer.
The smallest weighed 40 kilograms, but there were also giants of up to 700 kilograms. They began disappearing when an industrialized fishery geared up in the 1920s, using harpoon rifles and hydraulic lift nets.
By 1960, the species had virtually disappeared from the region.
"We've shown bluefin tuna were here for a long time in high numbers," MacKenzie said in a news release. "High fishing pressure preceded the species' virtual disappearance from the area and apparently played a key role but other factors under study might have compounded the fishery's demise -- the catch of juvenile tuna in subsequent years, for example.
Tagging shows travel patterns
The research team hopes their work will inspire "a more precautionary approach to the management of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic."
Today, Atlantic bluefin stocks are down 80 to 90 per cent compared to historical breeding populations.
CoML-associated scientists working with the Tag-A-Giant (TAG) program tracked migration patterns, and learned that fish tagged within minutes of each other wound up more than 5,000 km apart eight months later.:
One swam 6,000 km, past Bermuda to waters about 300 kilometres northeast of Cuba
The other remained in the eastern Atlantic and moved off the coasts of Portugal
A third tagged bluefin swam into the Mediterranean Sea and was caught by fishers southeast of Malta in 2005
Tuna have generally been harder to track than other fish stocks. The species keeps body temperature independent of the ambient environment. This allows it to go into very cold, northern waters -- and travel much longer migration routes than other fish.
The electronic tags allow scientists to determine exactly where the tuna breed, and the oceanographic conditions they are selecting.
"That's the first time for a large tuna species that we've had this kind of data to say this," Block said. "This information can help scientists and policy-makers best protect the remaining tuna while they are spawning."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070803/bluefin_tuna_070803/20070805?hub=TopStories
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Ecology Action Centre's Sunshine Award = RAM
"Ransom Myers Even after his death, Ram's work is coming out in Science and Nature. Just like the sun - Ram's impact on the world will take a while to set. Ram was never afraid to speak his mind and to work on things that were important for marine conservation. Ram was almost always happy and despite the magnitude of the problems he worked on, he always saw solutions. Ram was a great naturalist in that he loved the outdoors, loved asking questions and had a great appreciation for the work the natural environment did for us humans. Ram's science fundamentally changed fisheries science, raised very important marine conservation issues and really did make a difference in marine policy and law, particularly the work he and others did on shark bycatch in the pelagic longline fishery." http://ecologyaction.ca/awards/
Friday, June 15, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Ransom Myers obituary in Nature
In this week's issue of Nature (10 May, 2007), Daniel Pauly has written an obituary of Dr. Ransom A. Myers. It may be found at the following link in the News and Views section: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7141/index.html.
Pauly, D. Obituary: Ransom Aldrich Meyers (1952-2007) Chronicler of declining fish populations. Nature 447 (7141): 160.
This is a wonderful and fitting tribute to someone who published several articles in this esteemed journal, and led to mainstream talk about the status of depleted populations of marine species. For those who do not have a subscription or access to Nature, I hope it can be made available through other media.
Pauly, D. Obituary: Ransom Aldrich Meyers (1952-2007) Chronicler of declining fish populations. Nature 447 (7141): 160.
This is a wonderful and fitting tribute to someone who published several articles in this esteemed journal, and led to mainstream talk about the status of depleted populations of marine species. For those who do not have a subscription or access to Nature, I hope it can be made available through other media.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Listen to the touching NPR story on Ransom Myers
In "Science out of the Box," NPR featured "a story of a scientist who earned an international reputation for thinking outside the box." Below are some notes but it is much better to listen to the 3/30/07 edition at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9264815&ft=1&f=6851565 or download it from itunes.
Ram ... was one of those guys who always stood out at scientific conferences ... partly it was the kids - he had five - and one or two always seem to be following him around at a meeting. But it was also ... his ability to instantly see the hole in any argument. Biologist Charles Peterson said, Ram "had a twinkle in his eye and good humor but his comments were always sharp and to the point..."
Ram's voice from a few years ago: "the amazing thing we found...changing fundamentally the world's ocean without really thinking about it and really understanding it." Those studies made Ram a hero of conservatism.
Ram once said that it was bit of a fluke that he ended up studying species. He grew up in rural Mississippi. His precocious talent for math and science cause problems at school.
Andy Rosenberg said that Ram told him that "when he was in high school, he came to an agreement with the teachers that they had taught him everything they could and it would be better if that just left him in the library to learn things for himself."
....As a grad student at Dal, Ram began using his mathematical talent to understand how the oceans work. Andy Rosenberg was at Dal then & remembered Ram "coming out of the elevator with a stream of paper behind him (from the old teletype sheets) and Ram said 'I had this idea and I've written it up' and it fragments of sentences, equations and graphs ...he walked down the hall with a paper stream behind of him... that was just so much Ram."
Ram was never shy about defending his work. At one public debate, he titled his power point presentation "I AM RIGHT." Andy Rosenberg was there and the memory brought tears.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9264815&ft=1&f=6851565
Ram ... was one of those guys who always stood out at scientific conferences ... partly it was the kids - he had five - and one or two always seem to be following him around at a meeting. But it was also ... his ability to instantly see the hole in any argument. Biologist Charles Peterson said, Ram "had a twinkle in his eye and good humor but his comments were always sharp and to the point..."
Ram's voice from a few years ago: "the amazing thing we found...changing fundamentally the world's ocean without really thinking about it and really understanding it." Those studies made Ram a hero of conservatism.
Ram once said that it was bit of a fluke that he ended up studying species. He grew up in rural Mississippi. His precocious talent for math and science cause problems at school.
Andy Rosenberg said that Ram told him that "when he was in high school, he came to an agreement with the teachers that they had taught him everything they could and it would be better if that just left him in the library to learn things for himself."
....As a grad student at Dal, Ram began using his mathematical talent to understand how the oceans work. Andy Rosenberg was at Dal then & remembered Ram "coming out of the elevator with a stream of paper behind him (from the old teletype sheets) and Ram said 'I had this idea and I've written it up' and it fragments of sentences, equations and graphs ...he walked down the hall with a paper stream behind of him... that was just so much Ram."
Ram was never shy about defending his work. At one public debate, he titled his power point presentation "I AM RIGHT." Andy Rosenberg was there and the memory brought tears.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9264815&ft=1&f=6851565
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
"We are fishing our oceans to death"
Margaret Wente writes, "Ransom Myers is not a household name. He should be. The Nova Scotia biologist, who died last week at 54, was called the best fish scientist in Canada. He was also a leading authority on the greatest environmental disaster of our time. It's too bad that global warming gets all the ink, because the danger documented by Prof. Myers is right here, right now. We are fishing out the seas. We don't have to wait for global warming to wipe out species, because we are doing it already. Prof. Myers found that in the past 50 to 100 years, we have fished out more than 90 per cent of the world's biggest predatory fish -- tuna, swordfish, marlin, cod, shark. Most of the ones that remain are much smaller than the ones your grandpa saw. If somebody rewrote The Old Man and the Sea today, the old man's adversary would probably be a minnow. Today, we don't fish the seas -- we mine them. Ocean-going supertrawlers drag the seas to depths of 600 metres, sucking up the last of the giant bluefin tuna, along with tonnes and tonnes of bycatch (waste fish for which there is no market). They fish out one area and then move on, leaving a virtual desert in their wake. Prof. Myers's warnings were not speculation. He based them on a hard slog through the data of ocean trawler records through the years. Back in 2003, he warned, "We've got to cut fishing by 50 per cent, and if it's not done, we're going to lose the pelagic [ocean-going] species." Last week, his final piece of research was published in the journal Science. It found that populations of some of the biggest shark species off the eastern coast of the United States had also plunged by 90 per cent or even more. "If you go to any reef around the world, except for those that are really protected, the sharks are gone," Dr Ranson Myers said........... "The collapse was all blamed on the environment, on the seals, on the foreigners, when it was primarily Canadians," he (Dr. Ransom Myers) said later. "I saw that as the big lie, blaming it on anything but ourselves." So why are the big sharks going the way of the cod? Blame consumer tastes -- in this case, the Asian craze for shark-fin soup, which is considered a tasty if expensive delicacy. Shark fins sell for hundreds of dollars a kilogram, and shark-fin soup for as much as $100 a bowl. In a practice known as finning, fishermen catch the sharks on the high seas, cut off their fins and throw the carcasses back. It's illegal, but the high seas aren't well policed. As many as 75 million sharks were finned last year, says research team member Julia Baum. It's not too late to save the big fish. Prof. Myers's research has helped to bring about important changes in fishing practices and technology. But nothing much will happen without international laws, internationally enforced. Call it a sort of test case for global warming. If the world's fishing nations can't get together to save the fish, there's no hope for a pact on greenhouse gases.
Meantime, watch out what you're eating from the sea. As someone who loves sushi, this breaks my heart. But it's the ethical thing to do."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070403.wxcowent03/BNStory/National/?query
MARGARET WENTE From Tuesday's Globe and Mail April 3, 2007 at 3:58 AM EST
Meantime, watch out what you're eating from the sea. As someone who loves sushi, this breaks my heart. But it's the ethical thing to do."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070403.wxcowent03/BNStory/National/?query
MARGARET WENTE From Tuesday's Globe and Mail April 3, 2007 at 3:58 AM EST
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