It included aid to spinach farmers, to peanut farmers, to the shrimp industry and for wildfire suppression. said today he plans to consistently vote to end the war in Iraq as soon as possible, but sometimes he votes against timetable bills that he considers too expensive. Later that day the House narrowly passed a bill, 221-205, to fund the war through July and then Congress reserved the option to cut off money after that. Duncan said he voted against the latter provision due to its high...

The first three papers in Natural Resource Modeling look at predictions by existing climate models and study the effects on specific fish stocks or areas. The current prospect of substantial global warming, therefore, leads to concern about what this is likely to mean for the world s fisheries. The fact that fisheries are closely tied to human health and species health across the globe adds to their significance. They found that being sufficiently "in the dark" and facing the risk of stock...

After all, for most poor people, it's likely that commercial companies have all the fishing licences. The poor are disproportionately women, who usually can't take time off to go fishing. IN DEVELOPMENT aid circles, you often hear the saying: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him once; give him a fishing rod, and you feed him forever. And anyway, who can live off fish alone, or support a family on a single fishing pole? The core question is how society can provide worthwhile opportunities...

The National Fisheries Authority (NFA), after 19 years of preventing Japan from fishing in PNG waters, has lifted the embargo which was announced during the signing of an agreement for a technical co-operation project in the country yesterday. Under the project called fisheries development assistance for Pacific Island nations phase 4 , OFCF will provide necessary materials and equipment and dispatch technical experts next January at an estimated cost of JPY17. OFCF targets mostly small...

Bunker boats, most of which come from the mid-Atlantic area, were permanently banned six years ago from fishing in the Sound by an act of the state Legislature. Scientists generally blame a combination of over fishing, especially for large breeding age females (the "cows" that anglers so loved to catch), pollution in the fishes Chesapeake Bay breeding habitat where 70 to 90 percent of all East Coast striper originate, and a natural disease. In the 1960s and early '70's, the bass fishing...

The New Democrats had campaigned against open-net fish farms during the last election, calling for a moratorium on fish farm licences, and winning most of the coastal ridings that host fish farms. That wouldmean an end to open-net fish farmswithin five years. The committee's long-awaited report tabled on Wednesday calls for a "rapid phased transition" from the current open-pen fish farms to ocean-based closed containment systems to begin immediately. The industry would be given three years...