Something fishy?Get real. When you were 4 years old, you understood it better ("Catch Zero: What can be done as marine ecosystems face a deepening crisis?" SN: 7/26/03, p. 59). It goes like this: You dump the inkwell inkwell GI surgery A surgically constructed vagination-'intussusception' of a short sleeve of esophagus sewn into the stomach which, as intragastric pressure ↑, is compressed, forming a functional valve–eg, Nissen fundoplication. See Nissen procedure. (toxic discharge from industry and sewage systems) into the goldfish bowl (ocean) and the fish all turn belly up and the bowl is without fish. The moneyed polluting pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. industries, of course, would rather not get caught, so there are other (poorer) fall guys (the fishing industry, for example) to take the heat for dumping the ink into the goldfish bowl. While the rich guys pay for studies (grants) of specific attractive topics to support their point of view, the ocean is still dying. PENNIE MUMM, NEWPORT, ORE. I wonder about the boxed section "Sea-Friendly Eating" within "Catch Zero" I don't trust that list offish off·ish adj. Inclined to be distant and reserved; aloof. off  ish·ly adv.off that are environmentally good and bad for people to eat. For instance, the indictable offense indictable offense n. a crime (offense) for which a grand jury rules that there is enough evidence to charge defendant with a felony (a crime punishable by death or a term in the state penitentiary). of farmed salmon is that they will genetically degrade the species through escapes. But if all right-thinking fish eaters would eat only wild salmon, those fish would be terrifically overfished. So, the argument is strong that eating farmed salmon is better and wild Alaskan salmon should be saved for the occasional treat. LINDA G. JOHNSON, LONGMONT, COLO Colo Colorado (old style state abbreviation) COLO Columbus, Ohio COLO Co-Location COLO Colonial National Historic Park (US National Park Service) COLO Cost Of Living Option . |
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