It has virtually no fish, and the health of the local inhabitants has deteriorated markedly.
They don't breed, and no fish are added back to the wild population.
Peter Hain said the scheme's turbines would be "fish-friendly" although he couldn't guarantee that no fish would be hurt in the making of this barrage.
This figure is too high for the northern nations and the European Commission, which say the public expects that in a hungry world no fish should be thrown away.
"I'm getting tired of catching no fish, " said Robert Strazi, a 23-year-old mackerel enthusiast, as he cast his line in vain off Pensacola Beach's 1, 471-foot fishing pier, flanked by just two other anglers.
"There's no fish, " explains local fisherman Patrick Pierre.
But there is one big area that I think he misses, and that is the role that hunters and fishermen play in conservation. (I covered this topic in an earlier blog post.) Put simply, without hunters and fishermen, there would be no fish or game (or, at least, fewer fish and game) for animal rights groups to worry about.
There is some confusion over whether it would even be possible for consumers to avoid Chinese fish already in the U.S. Glavin said there is no requirement that fish and seafood have country of origin labels.
So there's no way I could financially be solvent in fish, no way.
He certainly looked like a woman: a black dress, no coat, fish-net stockings, ankle boots, shoulder-length wavy hair.
Molyneaux thinks the pressure to boost production will inevitably lead to unhealthy fish no matter where they are grown.
He said there were no guarantees about fish levels increasing, but he hoped the new facilities would encourage trawler owners to land their catch at Grimsby.
Behaviour patterns found at all sites were deemed as likely to be genetic as cultural (leaf-sponging turned out to be in this category), as were those whose absence was due to some environmental factor (fishing algae out of ponds is impossible where there are no algae to fish).
For Qian Hu, the key lies in keeping the fish healthy in the first place: "A disease that causes no problem in the fish pond can bloom into the open during travel and cause most or all of the fish to arrive dead, " says Yap.
The agency said water quality had almost returned to normal and fish were no longer being affected.
But AquaBounty engineered the salmon so it grows no larger than conventional fish.
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The spill on or around 16 June affected wildlife over several days before water quality returned to normal and fish were no longer being affected.
Last month, an international team of scientists, having compiled a vast range of data from a wide variety of sources, warned that at current rates of depletion, there would be no viable populations of fish left in the seas by the middle of the century.
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Which is not to say back alleys aren't still called "lanes, " or oyster-and-pig roasts on neighboring Tybee Island are no longer steeped in local fish-camp-hunt club tradition.
The fish (I no longer felt I deserved to call it by its rightful name), though undercooked, was vastly superior to the canned ravioli I heated on a hot plate every night.
Since there have been no tsunamis of comparable size in the Indian Ocean in living memory, no one knows how badly fish stocks will be affected or how long they will take to recover.
"In almost every case, the abundance of fish goes up in no-take zones, " Akins said.
And 79% of the fish populations assessed are no longer over-fished.
No researcher has ever reported seeing a fish preparing to jump like that, Soares and Bierman said.
Like many boys, I went to the river to fish, though I had no experience fishing at all.
But given the volumes now, Ford can no longer be treated as a small fish in a big pond.
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