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This adorable Caterpillar Stacking set exercises fine motor skills and fun-filled sensory exploration, along with sorting, matching and sequencing skills. This sweet manipulative toy is made up of rounded, chunky, tactile shapes that can stack to create a variety of colorful caterpillar families. The pegged base allows for stacking multiple angled, color-coded blocks. Set includes color-matching activity cards and card stand. Suggested Age: 2+.
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I dated a man in college who happened to be an enormous fan of the kung fu genre. You know the films – Supercop, Mr. Nice Guy, Who Am I? – the kind of marital arts movies that combined the graphic violence with humor and emotion, that tried to add plot amidst the fighting. Before I'd met that guy, I hadn't seen Jackie Chan in anything other than Rush Hour. If it hadn't been for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I'd have had no clue who Michelle Yeoh was. But that relationship, while in itself not entirely worthwhile, gave me an appreciation for a genre of film I'd previously been ignorant of and in which I had little, if any, interest. Even now, I have to admit I haven't seen more than a few kung fu films made before the '90s and I am by no means a connoisseur of the genre. But I can recognize good from bad and for those of you who have interest, The Man With The Iron Fists is some wicked good fun.
It comes to us from Rza, the leader of the Wu Tang Clan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eli Roth, both directed and starred in it, and wrote the music for its soundtrack. Yes, this film is a project near and dear to his heart and after watching the first few minutes alone, it is abundantly clear that Rza, unlike myself, harbors a deep and passionate love for this genre. The attention to detail from the costumes to the set design, the weaponry and artfully choreographed fighting to all the bloody carnage, is testament to Rza's lifelong love of a genre of film that has fallen out of style. His flick, his dotingly cared-for baby, is nothing short of an homage.
Which isn't to say that it's perfect. The plot revolves around a nameless blacksmith (Rza) who begrudgingly makes weapons for the Lion Clan, a band of violent offenders led by Gold Lion. Gold Lion is murdered by his second-in-command, Silver Lion (Byron Mann), a remorseless, power-hungry brute after the cache of gold that has also drawn the attention of the local brothel's Madame Blossom (Lucy Liu), the rivals Wolf Clan and Gemini Clan and a rogue British soldier, Jack Knife (Russell Crowe). Rza's blacksmith wants nothing more than to save enough money to flee the violent village with his love, Lady Silk (Jamie Chung), one of Madame Blossom's coveted girls. Mann and Liu give fun, engaged performances but the real stand out here comes at the more than capable hands of Russell Crowe. Crowe's Jack Knife has an insatiable sexual appetite matched only by his appetite for destruction. He is a joy to watch – seemingly having as much fun playing the role as you will watching him at it. His witty dialogue is delivered with as much ease as his brutality towards his opponents, his confidence in the bedroom while delighting nearly all of Madame Blossom's girls mirrors that which he displays while gutting his enemies. I honestly can't remember having seen Russell Crowe this mesmerizing to watch since 2000's Gladiator.
At the complete opposite end of the acting spectrum, you'll find Rza, who couldn't muster one shred of emotion at any point during his performance. His talents as a musician, writer and director far exceed any he may have as an actor. His is the weakest performance in the film. At times, it does take away from the story, giving moments that should be intensely emotional an empty, hollow feel impossible to ignore. I couldn't help but think that if a more capable actor had played Rza's blacksmith, the film could have been much more than simply entertaining.
All in all, I recommend The Man With The Iron Fists. It is a fast-paced, chaotic, delightfully violent film full of mayhem and whip-smart dialogue. It may be a bit shallow, its attempts at the deeply emotional falling flat due mostly to Rza's wooden performance, but otherwise enjoyable. What it lacks in depth, it more than makes up for in the talent of the supporting cast, the killer soundtrack and the spectacular fighting.


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Sphyrna zygaena
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758)
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|Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordinus, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Impensis Direct, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae.
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|Vulnerable A2bd+3bd+4bd ver 3.1
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|Casper, B.M., Domingo, A., Gaibor, N., Heupel, M.R., Kotas, E., Lamónaca, A.F., Pérez-Jimenez, J.C., Simpfendorfer, C., Smith, W.D., Stevens, J.D., Soldo, A. & Vooren, C.M.
|Valenti, S.V. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
This assessment is based on the information published in the 2005 shark status survey (Fowler et al. 2005).
The Smooth Hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) is one of the larger hammerhead sharks, found world-wide in temperate and tropical seas, with a wider range than other members of its family. It is semipelagic and occurs on the continental shelf. Although few data are available on the Smooth Hammerhead's life-history characteristics, it is a large hammerhead shark and presumably at least as biologically vulnerable as S. lewini. This species is caught with a wide variety of gears in both coastal and oceanic fisheries, as bycatch and a target. Therefore in some areas, all size classes and reproductive stages are susceptible to capture. The Smooth Hammerhead's large fins are highly valued for their high fin ray count and they are being increasingly targeted in some areas in response to increasing demand for the fin trade. Few species-specific data are available to assess population trends because catches of hammerhead sharks are often grouped together under a single category. Very often these sharks are finned and the carcasses discarded. This species has sometimes been confused with S. lewini in the tropics and these two species are probably misidentified with each other in some areas. Time series data on population trends in hammerhead sharks, including S. zygaena, are available from the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. In the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic, where S. zygaena is outnumbered by S. lewini by about ten to one, analysis of U.S. pelagic longline logbook data estimated that Sphrynidae (including S. lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena) declined in abundance by 89% since 1986. In the Mediterranean Sea, where S. zygaena outnumbers S. lewini, compilation and meta-analysis of time series abundance indices estimated that Sphrynidae (including S. lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena) declined by >99% in abundance and biomass since the early 19th century. While very steep declines have been recorded in these areas, the species is afforded some refuge in other areas of its range, such as southern Australia, where it is abundant and fishing pressure is low. The species is currently assessed as Vulnerable globally and further investigation into threats, population trends, catches and life-history parameters throughout its range is required to determine whether it may warrant a higher category in the future.
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|Range Description:
|This shark is found in coastal and open ocean (Domingo in prep) temperate and tropical waters, with a wider range than other members of its family (Compagno in prep). The full extent of this species' range in tropical waters may be incompletely known at present, due to probably confusion with the more abundant Scalloped Hammerhead (S. lewini) (Compagno in prep).
Western Atlantic: From Nova Scotia to Florida, USA and Virgin Islands to southern Argentina (Compagno in prep, Domingo in prep, Last and Stevens 1994).
Eastern Atlantic: From the UK and as a vagrant in the North Sea, southwards, including the Mediterranean Sea, where has been reported as more common in the western basin (Buencuerpo et al. 1998), to Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde Islands, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Angola (Compagno in prep, Last and Stevens 1994).
Indian Ocean: South Africa and southern Mozambique, Comoros Islands, southern India, Sri Lanka, and Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania) (Compagno in prep, Last and Stevens 1994).
Western Pacific: From Viet Nam (Gulf of Tonkin) to Japan and southern Russia in the Northwest Pacific. Australia (New South Wales), New Zealand, Lord Howe and Kermadec Islands in the Southwest Pacific (Compagno in prep, Last and Stevens 1994).
Eastern Pacific: From northern California, USA, to Gulf of California, Mexico, Panama, and from Ecuador to Chile, including Galapagos Islands (Compagno in prep, Last and Stevens 1994).
Also occurs off the Hawaiian Islands, USA and possibly off Samoa (Compagno in prep, Last and Stevens 1994).
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Native:Albania; Algeria; Argentina; Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; Egypt; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Greece; Greenland; Iceland; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kuwait; Latvia; Lebanon; Libya; Lithuania; Madagascar; Mexico; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Qatar; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; Turkey; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States (Alabama, Alaska, Aleutian Is., California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington); Uruguay; Western Sahara
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – southwest; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast
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|Specific data on populations of this species are generally unavailable in many areas because hammerhead shark catches are often grouped to include several Sphyrna species. Furthermore, this species has sometimes been confused with the Scalloped Hammerhead (S. lewini) in the tropics and these two species are probably misidentified with each other.
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|The large majority of the information for this section is taken from Simpfendorfer (2005).
The Smooth Hammerhead is a coastal-pelagic and semi-oceanic and occurs on the continental shelf, to 200 m depth (Ebert 2003). Smale (1991) reported that large individuals were commonly found over deep reefs on the edge of the continental shelf. The species has also been observed in freshwater in Indian River, Florida, USA (G. Burgess pers. comm.) and in the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay (Doño 2008, Domingo in prep.). In the demersal gillnet fishery in southern Western Australia, juvenile S. zygaena are caught on the bottom in depths from the shore to at least 60 m (C. Simpfendorfer pers. comm.). Compagno (in prep.) reports that this species occurs at or near the surface in the East China Sea, whereas S. mokarran and S. lewini range into deeper water in this area. The nursery habitat of this species is smooth sandy substrate in shallow waters, down to depths of 10m. Large schools of juvenile S. zygaena have been reported from off South Africa (Bass et al. 1975). Off southern Brazil in South America, S. zygaena occurs at depths of 10-100 m (Kotas 2004, Vooren et al. 2005). Nursery areas and juveniles have been reported in coastal waters off Uruguay from mid-Rio de la Plata to the Atlantic Ocean bordering with Brazilian waters from November to March at temperatures of 16-23°C and salinities of 12-27 ups (Doño 2008, Domingo in prep.).
There are only limited published biological data on S. zygaena, despite its widespread occurrence. Compagno (1984, in prep.) reported that the species reaches a maximum size of 370-400 cm total length (TL). Stevens (1984) reported that off the east coast of Australia males mature at about 250-260 cm TL and females at about 265 cm TL. Castro and Mejuto (1995) reported gravid females between 220 and 255 cm fork length (FL), but gave no relationship between fork and total length. Bass et al. (1975) reported a female S. zygaena from South Africa that appeared to have recently mated in February and another female caught in November that contained full-term embryos. Stevens (1984) reported that off the east coast of Australia parturition occurs between January and March, with ovulation at about the same time. The gestation period off eastern Australia would appear to be 10-11 months. Castro and Mejuto (1995) reported 21 gravid females with a mean litter size of 33.5 from the waters of western Africa. Off eastern Australia Stevens (1975) reported litter sizes between 20-49 (mean 32). The sex ratio of embryos is 1:1 (Stevens 1984, Castro and Mejuto 1995). Compagno (1984, in prep) gave the size at birth as 50-61 cm. Smale (1991) and Doño (2008) reported juveniles with open umbilical scars from South Africa at sizes between 59 and 63 cm, and from Uruguay between 49 and 55 cm TL, respectively. Possible pupping grounds and nursery areas for this species include the northern Gulf of California and shallow coastal waters off southern Brazil and Uruguay (Vooren 1997, 1999, Vooren and Klippel 2005, Doño et al. in prep). In Uruguay pupping grounds and nursery areas were reported in coastal waters by Doño (2008).
Although maximum age has yet to be determined for this species, it is thought that the lifespan of the smooth hammerhead may be 20 years or longer (FLMNH 2008). Further information is required on the biology and life-history parameters of this species.
Squid and teleosts are the most common prey. Based on specimens caught by recreational anglers off New South Wales, Australia, Stevens (1984) reported that 76% of specimens with food in their stomachs contained squid and 54% teleosts. For S. zygaena less than 2 m in length from the waters off South Africa, Smale (1991) reported that the diet was dominated by inshore squid (mostly Loligo v. reynaudii), with teleosts such as Hake, Horse Mackerel and Ribbonfish also important. Crustaceans and elasmobranchs have also been reported from stomach analyses (Bass et al. 1975, Compagno 1984, Smale 1991, Last and Stevens 1994). Compagno (1984) reported that sharks and rays were a favoured food, presumably of larger specimens. However, of 145 S. zygaena from South Africa examined by Dudley and Cliff (1993) only 0.7% contained elasmobranch prey.
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Smooth Hammerhead is caught with a variety of gears, including with pelagic longlines, handlines, gillnets, purse-seines and pelagic and bottom trawls (Bonfil 1994, Compagno in prep, Maguire et al. 2006). In a review of world elasmobranch fisheries Bonfil (1994) listed S. zygaena as being reported in catches from directed shark fisheries off the east and west coasts of the USA, Brazil, Spain, Taiwan and Philippines. It also is taken in the shark fishery off south-western Australia (Heald 1987) and western Africa (Castro and Mejuto 1995). This shark is undoubtedly caught in shark fisheries in other parts of its range, but has not been reported separately from other hammerhead species. Very often these sharks are finned and the carcasses discarded. Bonfil (1994) also reported that this species is caught as bycatch in a number of non-shark fisheries, particularly pelagic longline and gillnet fisheries that operate close to temperate and subtropical continental shelves (e.g., South Pacific driftnet fishery, Mediterranean drift net fishery, Spanish longline fishery operating in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean tuna longline fishery). The capture of S. zygaena in many of these fisheries is infrequent (Bonfil 1994). Although size data are limited, catches in pelagic fisheries appear to be dominated by larger individuals, while juveniles are common in inshore shelf fisheries.
This species' fins are highly valued and they are being increasingly targeted in some areas in response to increasing demand for shark fins. Hammerhead shark species S. zygaena and S. lewini were found to represent at least 4-5% of the fins auctioned in Hong Kong, the world's largest shark fin trading center (Clarke et al. 2006a). Hammerhead shark fins are generally high value compared to other species because of their high fin ray count (S. Clarke unpubl. data). It is estimated that between 1.3 and 2.7 million S. zygaena and/or S. lewini are represented in the shark fin trade each year or, in biomass, 49,000 to 90,000 mt (Clarke et al. 2006b).
Catches of Sphyrnidae have been reported only from the Atlantic Ocean since 1991 and these landings are undoubtedly under-reported. The catch was near 2,200 tonnes in 2004 (Maguire et al. 2006). Only S. zygaena and S. lewini are reported as individual species in the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) fisheries statistics, but hammerhead catches are often grouped in one category as, Sphyrna species, which makes identification of actual catches of S. zygaena difficult.
Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea
The Smooth Hammerhead appears to be less common in the central Mediterranean, in comparison to the western regions of this sea. Buencuerpo et al. (1998) reported that 757 specimens were captured during their pelagic longline and gillnet survey from July 1991-July 1992 off southern Spain. Most of these specimens were presumed to be part of the Atlantic population. In the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea this species is mainly caught by longlines and gillnets, particularly as bycatch in tuna and swordfish fisheries. Despite a ban on driftnetting in Mediterranean waters, this practice continues illegally (WWF 2005). A recent study of the Moroccan driftnet fleet operating in the Alboran Sea (southwest Mediterranean) and around the Strait of Gibraltar by Tudela et al. (2005) indicates that pelagic fishing pressure in this area is beyond the reproductive capacity of several other semi-oceanic shark species that were previously caught with S. zygaena (such as Alopias vulpinus). Some of these vessels appear to be increasingly targeting sharks by deploying driftnets closer to shore (Tudela et al. 2005). Sphyrna zygaena is not mentioned in this study. However, this species was reported in Buencuerpo et al.'s (1998) survey of longline and gillnet landings from the same area in 1992. Buencuerpo et al. (1998) report the highest catches of Sphyrna zygaena in the Spanish swordfish fishery from the western African coasts and near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Ferretti et al. (2008) compiled nine time series of abundance indices from commercial and recreational fishery landings, scientific surveys and sighting records, to reconstruct long-term population trends of large sharks in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Of the taxa for which there were enough data to investigate, hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna spp) declined the fastest; they appeared to disappear from coastal waters after 1963 and catches declines consistently in pelagic waters in the early 1980s in all sectors. Meta-analysis showed an average instantaneous rate of decline of -0.17 (CI 95%: -0.34, -0.003; time range 178 years) in abundance and -0.36 (CI 95%: -0.56, -0.16; time range: 107 years) in biomass, which translated into an estimated species decline of 99.99% in both cases. Walker et al. (2005) also report that the species has virtually disappeared from the central-southern Mediterranean Sea since 1986.
Mejuto et al. (2002) estimate landings of 240 tons of Sphyrna spp. And 1.1 ton of Sphyrna zygaena in the North Atlantic for the Spanish Surface longline fleet in 1999. De la Serna et al. (2002) reported only eight specimens of S. zyagaena (0.05%) in a total 17,759 sharks caught during a survey of the Spanish Mediterranean Fisheries from 1997-1999. This is significantly lower when compared to results of the same fishery along the west African coast and Iberian peninsula (where 757 specimens in period July 1991-July 1992 were caught). Megalofonou et al. (2000) only recorded four specimens during their survey of shark bycatches and discards in Mediterranean large pelagic fisheries in 1998-1999 (one in the Adriatic, two in the Ionian Sea and one in Spanish Mediterranean waters). There are few recent records of Sphyrna species in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. A total of 16 records of S. zygaena were collected in the eastern Adriatic from the 19th century to the 1950s, including reported catches were distributed throughout whole of the eastern coast. A higher number of records were reported during the 19th century in comparison to the 20th century (10 vs. 6, respectively) and the species has not been reported in this area since 1956 (Soldo and Jardas 2002). Although it occurs in open waters of southern Adriatic, it is only caught very rarely (Bello 1999). There were only 13 records of S. zygaena in the Northern Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Seas from the 1960s-1995 and there are no reports of this species during the last five years (F. Serena pers. comm.).
Northwest Atlantic
Longline fleets exert intense fishing pressure throughout the Northwest Atlantic (Baum et al. 2003). Baum et al. (2003) estimated that hammerhead sharks (grouped data for S. lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena) have declined in abundance by 89% since 1986 (95% confidence interval (CI): 86 to 91%) in their analysis of U.S. pelagic longline logbook data. This group is primarily composed of S. lewini; in Virginia Institute of Marine Science sampling programmes since 1973, S. lewini outnumbered S. zygaena by more than ten to one (Ha 2006).
Southwest Atlantic
In the Southwest Atlantic S. zygaena faces two main threats related to fisheries: catches of juveniles and pups along the continental shelf by different fishing gears (mainly bottom gillnets and trawlers (Vooren and Lamónaca 2003, Kotas and Petrere 2002, Doño 2008); and adult and juvenile catches by gillnets and longlines throughout the continental shelf and oceanic environments for the international fin market (Kotas et al. 2001, Kotas and Petrere 2002ab, Kotas and Petrere 2003, Zerbini and Kotas 1998, Domingo in prep). The species therefore faces intensive fishing pressure at all points in its life-cycle in this area. Off southern Brazil; from 1983-2005, indices of abundance of neonates of S. zygaena varied from 1-5% of the abundance of those of S. lewini in the same area (Vooren et al. 2005). Catches of neonates, juveniles and adults are taken by longline fleets based in Itajaí, which operate along the coast of southern Brazil (Kotas and Petrere 2002). The species is also a known bycatch of domestic, as well as Taiwanese, Japanese and other international longline fishing fleets operating throughout the South Atlantic Ocean (Joung et al. 2005, Matsushita and Matsunaga 2002). Juveniles and adults are also taken as bycatch by longline fleets operating in shelf and oceanic waters off Uruguay and Brazil (200-3000m). Given the declining trends apparent in other areas of the species' range where it is heavily fished, for example the Mediterranean Sea, the population in the Southwest Atlantic may be unable to withstand continued fishing pressure.
Eastern Pacific
Sphyrna zygaena is taken as both target and bycatch in artisanal and industrial fisheries along the eastern Pacific coast of the Americas. Landings of this species in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico have been reported as 1% of the total chondrichthyan catch. Seasonal surveys of fisheries on the eastern coast of Mexico, conducted during 1998-1999, showed that S. zygaena was a common component of the landings of directed shark fisheries. The majority of those landed were juveniles in many areas (Bizzaro et al. 2007). This study reports that large sharks, such as S. zygaena were usually targeted in directed drift gillnet, or to a lesser extent, surface longline fisheries. Márquez-Farías (2000) report an overall decline in catch rates for all shark species in the Gulf of California. This species has also been reported as bycatch in longline, bottom trawl and gillnets in the landings of other Central and South American countries, down to Peru. In Ecuador, S. zygaena represents 11% of the total chondrichthyan landings. There is a high proportion of juveniles in these Ecuadorian landings; 91% of female (measuring S. zygaena represented 12.5% of total chondrichthyan landings over the period 1996-2005 (Romero, M. PANtiburones).
An artisanal fishing fleet targeting sharks south of Tres Marias Islands in the Central Mexican Pacific operated out of La Cruz Huanacaxtle from the early 1990s to 1997, after which they moved to Yavaros in the Central Gulf of California, apparently following the migratory movements of some of the shark species (Pérez-Jiménez et al. 2005). Pérez-Jiménez et al. (2005) monitored the shark landings of this fleet from 1995-1996. Sphyrna zygaena was the most important of 10 species recorded in 607 sets taken south of the Tres Marias Islands, composing 35% of 2,004 sharks recorded. This artisanal fleet has not caught sharks south of the Tres Marias Islands or in the Central Gulf of California since the late-1990s (Pérez-Jiménez et al. 2005).
Illegal fisheries target sharks for their fins around the Galapagos Islands. There are no specific data for these fisheries, but given the high value of its fins, it is very likely that it is targeted in illegal finning activities. Illegal fishing in this area is not only practiced by fishermen from the Galapagos, but also by the industrial and artisanal fleets from continental Ecuador and international fleets (Coello 2005). Divers and dive guides in the Galapagos have noted a severe decrease in shark number and schools of hammerhead sharks (P. Zarate pers comm.). The Ecuadorian Government issued a decree in 2004 prohibiting fin export from Ecuador, in an attempt to help stop illegal finning in the Galapagos. Unfortunately the Decree had the reverse effect of establishing illegal trade routes with fins now being exported mainly via adjacent Peru and Colombia, where there is no regulation banning finning. Interviews within fishermen and traders in both Ecuador and Peru suggest that there are illegal trade routes for fins transported both from continental Ecuador and directly from the Galapagos to Peru, and illegal finning activity is ongoing (Sáenz 2005, WildAid 2005).
Hammerhead sharks, including S. zygaena, are also caught by international purse seine fleets targeting tunas in the high seas of the Eastern Pacific, particularly those associated with Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) (Román-Verdesoto and Orozco-Zöller 2005). IATTC conducted a one year species sampling programme to determine the accuracy of identification by fisheries observers on these vessels. Sphyrna zygaena was found to represent 1.7% and S. lewini, 3.6% of the sharks recorded during this programme, respectively.
In the West Australian demersal gillnet fishery Sphyrna zygaena is an important bycatch species, but appears not to be impacted by this low fishing pressure. The species is reasonably abundant around the northern North Island of New Zealand, and the most abundant shark species recorded in aerial surveys along the northwest coast. In New Zealand, neonates and small juveniles are a common bycatch in commercial gillnet fisheries for flatfish, and are also commonly taken by trawlers and Danish seiners. They are usually discarded, although juveniles discarded from gillnets are usually dead. Adults are mainly taken by gamefishers as bycatch when targeting marlin with live baits, and consequently the annual catch is small. Many of the sharks taken by game fishers are released alive (C. Duffy, pers. comm.). S. zygaena is abundant in the region, and significant numbers of adults do not appear to be taken in commercial fisheries.
Sphyrna zygaena, along with S. lewini and S. mokarran, are exploited by the commercial line fishery and recreational game fishery off New South Wales. The majority of the hammerhead catch in commercial and recreational fisheries is composed of S. zygaena and S. lewini (Scandol et al. 2008). Total commercial hammerhead landings peaked in 1993/94 at 15/7 t. Annual commercial catches have averaged ~3 t in the last five years. Most hammerhead landings come from the Ocean Trap and Line Fishery (74%), but they are also taken in the Estuary General and Ocean Trawl Fisheries.
Information on catches of S. zygaena by recreational anglers is very limited due to the lack of species identification. Total catch of hammerhead sharks by recreational gamefishing and protective beach meshing remained at about 250 sharks per year between the 1970s and 2001, with 95% of recreational gamefishing catches being tagged and released. It is likely that S. zygaena is caught in recreational fisheries off temperate and subtropical coasts. This species has also been reported from nets set in the New South Wales beach protection programme (Krough 1994). This employs large mesh gillnets to catch large sharks as a measure to protect beach users from shark attack. In the New South Wales programme, hammerheads (mostly S. zygaena) made up nearly 50% of the catch of 4,715 sharks in the period from 1972-73 to 1989-90 (Reid and Krough 1992). The large mesh nets used by shark control programmes appear to be very efficient at catching hammerhead sharks, including S. zygaena, while catches are very low on the large baited lines used in some programmes (Simpfendorfer 1993).
Indo-West Pacific
Hammerhead sharks, including S. zygaena, are taken in a variety of artisanal and commercial fisheries in this region as both target and bycatch, however, no reliable species specific data are available because catches tend to be grouped into "Sphyrna spp.", if recorded at all. Pelagic fisheries have operated in the Indian Ocean for more than 50 years; Japanese long-liners in the eastern Indian Ocean since 1952 and in the western region since 1956. Russian, Taiwanese and South Korean vessels have fished there since 1954-1966 (Gubanov and Paramonov 1993). The Spanish swordfish longline fishery, which also targets sharks, is also active across the Indian Ocean (ICCAT 2005). Large hook and line and in mesh gillnet fisheries are known to target sharks off India, where this species occurs (Anderson and Simpfendorfer 2005). Finning and discarding of carcasses has also been reported, especially in offshore and high seas fisheries (Anderson and Simpfendorfer 2005). A recent review of fisheries in the Indian Ocean (Young et al. 2006) reported that sharks in this area are considered fully to over-exploited. Large numbers of longline vessels have also been reported to be operating illegally in coastal waters of the western Indian Ocean, primarily targeting hammerhead sharks and giant guitarfish (IOTC 2005, Dudley and Simpfendorfer 2006).
Japanese data on hammerhead species are limited, but reported landings in Japan's coastal ports totaled 11-34 mt annually between 2000 and 2004 with an average of 24 mt per annum. No CPUE trends are available (Japan Fisheries Agency 2006).
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Smooth hammerhead is a member of the family Sphyrnidae, which is listed on Annex I, Highly Migratory Species, of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. States are urged to cooperate over the management of these species. No such management yet exists. Precautionary adaptive collaborative management of target and bycatch fisheries is urgently needed for this highly migratory species. It is also essential to improve and sustain data collection and develop stock assessments for this species. Listing on international resource management agreements, such as the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) could help to drive improvements in national and regional management and facilitate collaboration between states, for this species and other migratory sharks.
The adoption of shark finning bans by fishing states (e.g., USA, Australia, Brazil), regional entities (EU) and regional fisheries organisations (e.g. ICCAT, IOTC, IATTC, WCPFC) is accelerating and should increasingly prevent the capture of oceanic sharks for their fins alone. Strict enforcement of these bans is required if they are to be effective.
Management plans, fishing regulation, and monitoring programs are needed throughout this species' range. Estimates of acceptable catch rates should be viewed with precaution until there is more certainty in age and growth parameters and further research on the species' life-history characteristics is required. Protection of known adult aggregation sites and coastal nursery areas is also recommended.
In the USA, this species is included in the Large Coastal Shark complex management unit on the US Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan, however there are no management measures specific to this species and no stock assessments have been undertaken for it. Enforcement of Brazilian laws restricting the length of pelagic gillnets and banning trawl fishing at a distance of less than 3 nm from shore has been difficult and therefore trawling in inshore nursery grounds has persisted.
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U.S. stocks are moving lower in midday trading following disappointing economic news from China and Japan.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell five points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,872 as of noon Eastern time Monday.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 76 points, or 0.5 percent, to 16,375. The Nasdaq composite fell 11 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,324.
Investors were discouraged by an 18 percent slump in Chinese exports last month, the latest sign of trouble for the world's second-largest economy. Japan lowered its estimate for fourth-quarter economic growth.
In the U.S., Chiquita Brands jumped 12 percent after announcing it had agreed to combine with an Irish fruit supply company.
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So CrunchFund invested in Codecademy, along with Union Square Ventures and a whole pack of others.
Codecademy teaches people how to code. Starting with the assumption that you know absolutely nothing at all about coding. It eases you in by asking you to type in your name.
And, suddenly, you're coding.
It gets a lot harder from there. But it walks you through it. Short description of what you want to do, why, and how. Then you do it. Then the next step. There are hints, but sometimes it's not enough and you have to go back and re-take a previous lesson. The best part are the achievement badges that you get every few steps. Seriously, before you know if you've spent two hours on the site and know a smidgen of javascript. And, it was fun.
I also like that Codecademy is asking users to create new lessons. They have a tool for creating it and released it to 50 people. Ten high quality lessons came out of it and Codecademy will be releasing them soon.
There's a great reason for investing. The service came out of nowhere in the summer Y Combinator class and launched in August.
That's two months since launch. 750,000 people have used it. It's growing like crazy every day.
There are hugely obvious business models down the road. Particularly talent spotting and steering those people into the right jobs.
Codecademy says that their goal is to become the way that anyone can learn complex coding concepts, even people who've never coded before.
Future of Learning?
What really excites me about Codecademy is that you can learn almost anything this way. The service comes from CEO Zach Sims wanting to learn how to code. Cofounder Ryan Bubinski had been teaching people to code for years as a side job in college, and he found that this approach – short explanation, then go do it, then talk again, with everything in small constantly reinforced increments, really worked.
All I can think of is how if this was around when I was in college I may have actually learned calculus this way. I got a B in that class but I can clearly remember at the time being completely lost, and anything I did learn is now permanently wiped from my brain.
I'd still have gone to college because college was four years of concentrated fun. But who learns anything in college? Not me. I needed something like Codecademy.
I'm very excited to see how this turns out. Meanwhile, I've earned two badges on Codecademy – "first lesson" and "ten exercises completed." I've never been so proud of a virtual badge on my screen.


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People who know me know that I never use boxed cake mix to make cakes. I am definitely a cake from scratch girl. And although I don't use them to make cakes or cupcakes, I do use boxed cake mix to make "crust" for two recipes.
The first recipe is something we like to call "that pumpkin thing". I guess its official name is pecan pumpkin pie. I got that recipe from a restaurant on West Portal Avenue here in the city (and I will probably post the recipe on my blog in the future). And the second recipe is the one you see here for toffee almond bars. The toffee almond bar recipe was adapted from a recipe I found on the side of a yellow cake mix box.
The funny thing is that these are my two most requested recipes. I think maybe there's something in the cake mix that people seem to really like. Cake mix has a very specific and distinctive flavor that is like nothing else. I personally don't like that cake mix flavor, but I admit that I keep a box of yellow cake mix around just in case someone else has a craving for these toffee almond bars. In fact, they have been dubbed the "evil bars" by one of my coworkers since she can't resist them. But she also calls them "little bites of heaven".
Toffee Almond Bars
(makes one 9x13-inch pan)
1 - 18 ounce box of Pillsbury yellow cake mix
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1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
1 - 14 fluid ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
*(NOT evaporated milk)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
6 ounces toffee bits
*(I've used bits with or without chocolate as well as chopped up Skor or Heath candy bars)
1 cup sliced, slivered or chopped almonds
Mix the yellow cake mix, butter and 1 egg together and press into the bottom of a well-buttered 9x13-inch baking pan. Bake at 350 F degrees for 7 minutes (the crust won't look done).
In the meantime, mix the sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, 1 egg, toffee bits and the almonds. Pour over the warm crust and bake at 350 F degrees for 24 to 30 minutes until the top looks slightly golden brown. Cool before cutting.


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I understand that everyone loves the Apple brand for its vibrancy, simplicity, and power. I really do. It's a kickass brand, so it's not surprising. But… Please don't ask me to build you a brand 'just like Apple' unless Steve Jobs' ghost is already on board to lead it. Because that's what it'd take to make it work.
Look… Contrary to what most of the branding and advertising industry shouts at customers, the job of a great branding team is not to give you the brand that you want. Our job is to give you a brand with which you can succeed. Asking for a brand that looks like Apple may be an effective short-hand way to convey an aesthetic that you find appealing, but the whole underlying structure from which brands are actually built is overlooked in the process. Worse, the chances that what you and your staff find aesthetically appealing and what will bring a positive change in the behavior of your intended audience being the same are nearly nil.
What made Apple… well, Apple… was the insight, effort, and execution of Jobs, Wozniak, and their team. The name and logo they chose didn't cause their success; the verbal and visible brand was a direct result of the unique qualities of the organization's leadership expressed nearly to perfection. They changed the behavior of hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe by genuinely understanding who Apple was, delivering a product that could only come from such people, and communicating both their thinking and performance in a way that seemed to both illuminate and prove their difference. Or as I would normally put it, they used something very like Gandhi's Pyramid. If you want to honor their brand or have similar successes then I'd advise you stop trying to copy the result of their efforts or the current state of their brand and start duplicating the effort and unique insights that led to it.
Making you look like Apple isn't that hard. (Just ask Samsung.) But creating a lasting and valuable brand as unique and genuine as Apple from your own values and actions should actually result in a brand that in the end isn't much like Apple at all.


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After eight seasons spent with three teams, running back Derrick Ward said Tuesday that his NFL career has come to an end.
To all my fans just wanted to let u know its been a great ride the last 9yrs but I'm calling it a career. I thank u all for believing in me!- Derrick Ward (@DerrickWard32) July 3, 2012
Ward spent the past two seasons with the Houston Texans, but made it clear last month his run with the team is over. The rise of Arian Foster and Ben Tate didn't help Ward's cause in a crowded backfield.
His most productive years were spent with the New York Giants, who picked up Ward in 2004. He and Brandon Jacobs both topped 1,000 yards in New York in 2008, but Ward hasn't rushed for more than 500 yards in a season since. He spent the 2009 season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before heading to Houston.
The league-wide demand for 31-year-old running backs is at an all-time low, but this might not be the end for Ward.
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Personal: Five-year letterwinner under coach Terry Garren at Madison Central High School … three-time 5A Mississippi High School Singles Champion (2003, 2004, 2005) … two-time All-State selection … four-time All-District honoree … helped lead Jaguars to 2001, 2003 and 2004 5A State Championships … posted impressive 48-4 career singles record … went undefeated during junior and senior seasons, going a combined 26-0 … posted 12-1 record as a sophomore and 10-3 as a freshman … daughter of Laura and David Carroll … born April 11, 1987 … majoring in biology and psychology


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A 12' telescopic pole pruner, powered by 36-volt Lithium-Ion battery technology. Batteries & chargers can be purchased separately or as a combined set with tool.
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"We just want a plan on the books. We want to be proactive. Bedbugs are difficult to get rid of and we want to make sure everyone is prepared," Ald. Debra Silverstein, 50 Ward, said.
Alonzo Carter has dealt with bedbugs off and on for the past few years.
"In the seam of the furniture and same thing on the mattress. The seam of the mattress where they live," Carter said.
Carter's not alone in his fight against the tiny pests. Bedbugs have become so prevalent in Chicago that Orkin Pest Control announced they did more business in the Windy City in 2012 than in any other city.
Chicago aldermen hope an ordinance that holds landlords responsible for hiring licensed professional to fight bedbugs in their buildings will remove Chicago from the top of that list. Landlords who fail to comply would pay fines of up to $1,000 a day.
During a hearing on the ordinance Tuesday, some people raised concerns about the need for cooperation between tenants and landlords to tackle bedbug problems.
"I like that they are mandating that they have pest control companies in there. Part of the things I do not think they cover very well is exactly what happens if the tenant does not cooperate. A lot of our biggest problems out there [are] the tenant not doing what we recommend that they do or that the property owners say that they do," said Daniel Wondaal, Allied Services Pest Control.
"Through direct work with renters we have been alerted to many cases in which tenants were blamed for bedbug infestations and harassed into leaving their homes," Patricia Fron, Lawyers Committee for Better Housing, said.
"Realtors have a code of ethics. This is not the type of behavior that's accepted. If tenants feel those problems, there are a number of organizations that represent those individuals and we are more than happy to go after bad actors within our industry," Brian Bernardoni, Chicago Area Association of Realtors, said.


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TBOX 2011 in Wrigleyville Gallery#1
TBOX 2011 seen on the scene on Saturday, December 10, 2011 in Wrigleyville at Cubby Bear, Sluggers, John Barleycorn and Moe's Cantina. Click here to see Gallery#2 from TBOX 2011. Click here to check out Fashion After Dark photos on Chicago Shopping.
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Jenny McCarthy, former Playboy Playmate and host of her own new show, VH1's The Jenny McCarthy Show, knows how imperative it is to age gracefully in front of the camera.
"I am Team Botox," Jenny admits in an exclusive interview in the new issue of In Touch, on newsstands now. "I do it here and there. I use very little, so my face still moves," she says of the procedure.
And although Jenny says she's open to getting plastic surgery done in the future, she plans on waiting. "You don't really need old-fashioned surgery any more with all the lasers and Botox," she explains. "So I'm not sure I would go under the knife until I'm at least as old as Joan Rivers — like 99 or however old she is!"
EXCLUSIVE: Jenny: "I'm On a Dating Sabbatical!"
Despite her success, Jenny says she's not the next Oprah — "That's like saying I'm the next God!" — but being in front of the camera does push her to bring her A-game. "Ninety percent of the way you look is what you eat, so I'm really just cautious. I'll really fill up on fruits and vegetables," she explains of her preparation for her upcoming show airing Fridays at 10:30 p.m. "Maybe I'll guinea pig myself on new [beauty] treatments on the show. I'll be the rat for America, without going overboard!"
For more from Jenny on her love life, her new show, and plastic surgery, pick up this week's In Touch, on newsstands now!


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Mexican citizen sentenced for re-entry to US
Man deported multiple times
Mexican citizen sentenced for re-entry to US
Man deported multiple times
RUTLAND, Vt. —
A Mexican citizen who pleaded guilty to returning to the United States after being deported has been sentenced to over three years in prison.
Court records say the U.S. Border Patrol arrested Raymond Oldenburg on Route 105A in East Richford in April. A records check showed that the 51-year-old Oldenburg was born in Mexico and was not legally in the United States.
Records showed that Oldenburg was previously removed from the United States in 1997, 1999 and 2007.
In 2006, he was convicted in New York of re-entry after deportation and was sentenced to 18 months in prison in that case.
Oldenburg also had five previous burglary convictions from 1982 to 1996, primarily in New Hampshire.


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Alison Moyet, "The Minutes" (Cooking Vinyl/Metropolis Records)
Alison Moyet is not trying to impress you. True to her punk roots, the English artist didn't make "The Minutes," her first studio album since 2007, to please anyone. And, by doing so, she has created a remarkable collection that takes her rich contralto to new edges.
Moyet, the iconic voice in the 1980s synth-pop duo Yazoo (aka Yaz), revives her electronic roots here, merging with an experimental blend of synth sounds that express modernity, technology and introspection. Producer Guy Sigsworth has built brilliant moments into the album's fabric, demanding listeners be armed with good headphones.
Moyet's voice is at its most complex and her lyrics are darkly poetic, in perfect defiance of commercial conventions. As she proclaims on "Right as Rain," an ubercool club piece, "If you can't be happy with me, be unhappy with me, stay unhappy with me."


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The quartet represents a season of outstanding academic accomplishments for a Sam Houston State University athletic program that keeps getting better and better both in the arena and the class room.
Sam Houston State won league titles and made long NCAA post-season runs in football and baseball. The Kats experienced Southland Conference tournament success as well in volleyball, soccer, basketball and softball.
Even more impressive is the athletic program's success in the classroom.
The more than 400 student-athletes who represent Sam Houston State University in intercollegiate sports set several athletic department records during the 2012 spring semester including a 3.00 combined grade point average (GPA).
Other new academic marks included a total of 176 student-athletes with 3.0 or higher semester GPAs; 131 with overall career GPAs above 3.0; 30 men and women with perfect 4.0 semester GPAs and seven Bearkat sports teams compiling overall squad GPAs above 3.0.
"To have more than half of our teams post grade point averages higher than 3.0 is just remarkable. We've never had a semester with that many of our sports teams over 3.0 before," Sam Houston director of athletics Bobby Williams said. "We are extremely proud of our student-athlete's achievements in the classroom and commend our coaching staff for the job they do in recruiting quality student-athletes. The number one goal for each of our sports teams is to have our young men and women earn their Sam Houston degrees."
Sam Houston State also tied a school mark during the 2011-12 year having four Bearkats recognized as Southland Conference "Student-Athlete of the Year" in their respective sports.
Watson, Davis, Glenn and Arrington took honors in each of their individual sports. Only in 2007 has the Bearkat program equaled the feat. Since 2007, 13 Bearkats have been voted Southland "Student-Athlete of the Year" a total of 15 times.
In addition, women's bowling team members Dayna Galganski and Michelle Secours earned Academic All-America recognition. Sam Houston competes as an NCAA Division I independent in bowling. The bowling team finished the 2011-12 season ranked No. 9 nationally.
Also, in January at the NCAA Division I National Championship football game in Frisco, Bearkat quarterback Greg Sprowls received the Elite 89 award in a special presentation made by NCAA President Dr. Mark A. Emmert.
Twenty-nine Bearkats were selected Academic All-Southland Conference. The Academic All-Conference teams are selected in each sport by vote of the league's head coaches, sports information directors and academic coordinators. To be eligible, a student-athlete must have an overall career GPA of 3.0 or above, be a starter or front line reserve and have competed in at least half of the team's events.
During both the fall and spring semesters 168 Bearkat student-athletes earn spots on the Southland Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll by posting 3.0 or higher GPAs during the semester in which their sport competed.
Sam Houston's athletic department 2.96 spring semester average represents a mark higher than the overall GPA for the university's 17,618 students. The performance marks the eighth time in the past 12 semesters athletics has produced 2.90 or higher GPA.
These performances highlight the SHSU Department of Athletics Fall 2012 Academic Report released this week by associate athletic director for student services Chris Thompson and her staff.
"These athletic and academic achievements don't happen by accident," Williams said. "Chris Thompson and her academic support staff and the coaches from each sport make academics a priority and work hard to recruit quality young men and women."
The 30 student-athletes who posted 4.0 fall GPAs included Jake Arrington, Greg Olson and Wyatt Powell (baseball); Michelle Secours (bowling); Michael Buse, Kash David, Robert Martin, Joshua Reynolds and Caden Walker (football); Jessica Borth and Sarah St. John (women's golf); Kayla Anderson, Rebecca Cheiffetz, Ashley Fluty and Hailey Shelpuk (soccer); Alyssa Coggins and Tomi Garrison (softball); Oliver Dubiel, Henry Jordan, Patrick Pitts, Nicole Aponte, Kristian Austin, Haleigh Ceballos, Brittany Henson and Jenny Zoch (track and field); and Lauren Bohlen, Tayler Gray, Jamie Haas, Courtney Kimutis and Carli Kolbe (volleyball).
The Bearkat volleyball team that compiled an 11-5 Southland Conference won-loss record and reached the semifinals of the league post-season tournament led the academic success parade with a 3.36 team spring semester GPA. Other sports with 3.0 plus GPAs were women's golf 3.34, tennis 3.29, bowling and soccer 3.16, softball 3.04 and women's track and field 3.00.
"It's really fun winning with young student-athletes who work hard in the class room as well as on the field," Sam Houston head football coach Willie Fritz said.
Sam Houston athletics' success in the classroom is no flash in the pan. Since the 1994-95 school year, SHSU student-athletes have combined to produce semester GPAs of 2.4 or higher. The Bearkat athletic GPA has 2.89 or higher for 12 consecutive semesters.
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North Country worries declining moose population will dry up tourism cash cowBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 06. 2013 9:40PM
COLEBROOK — As this Canadian border town prepares for the annual Moose Festival, from Aug. 23-25, North Country Chamber of Commerce Manager Justin Eldred is afraid the only moose that's going to show up will be the volunteer wearing a moose costume and serving as mascot for the event.
Moose sightings, even in the northernmost regions of the state, are becoming less frequent, Eldred said. Visitors are starting to complain, and businesses are starting to worry.
The fourth weekend in August has traditionally been a time to celebrate the regal beast whose image adorns everything from motor vehicle license plates to souvenir mugs sold in Moose Alley — the northern section of the state that straddles Route 3 in the Connecticut Lakes region.
Each year, the North Country Moose Festival draws hundreds of people to the weekend of events, including the classic car show, moose-calling contest and the moose-burger barbecue.
But the moose themselves have been noticeably absent this year.
"We have moose maps printed up here that show all the areas, the local hot spots for seeing moose, and I have been passing these out with the best of intentions," Eldred said. "Unfortunately, the moose don't seem to be cooperating."
State Fish & Game officials recently announced a $700,000 initiative, largely funded by the federal government, to tag cows and calves with radio-transmitters so that biologists can use GPS technology to track their movements and over a four-year period analyze deaths to determine cause.
The problem of diminishing moose populations is most severe south of the North Country, in the White Mountains and central regions, according to Kristine Rines, moose project leader at the Department of Fish and Game.
She said the estimates of moose population in the farthest northern regions are actually on target with state goals based on public surveys done every 10 years.
Difference of opinion
The last surveying was done in 2005-2006, said Rines, and at that time, people asked Fish and Game to reduce the moose population because of frequent collisions with moose on the highways.
The statewide population was as high as 6,500 in 2001, Rines said, and is now estimated at 4,500.
"People are seeing a lot fewer moose up there because moose just don't come out to the road like they used to," she said. "The DOT came to us years ago and asked what we could do to reduce moose and vehicle collisions up there. We gave them some suggestions and they took them."
Allowing forests to regrow closer to the roadways and reducing salt licks were among the recommendations.
"Right now, things are kind of stable in the Connecticut Lakes Region," she said. "Some people, and it's a vocal some people, don't like where the numbers currently are, and we'll be revisiting those goals in 2016 after another round of public input in 2015."
Not seeing moose
One of those vocal people is Bruce Beaurivage, an electrician by trade and a registered New Hampshire hunting guide who has been taking hunters into the woods for 15 years.
He said some of his fellow guides and some town officials in the area have asked the state to suspend the moose hunt this year, to no avail.
"We've been talking to them for 10 years now, and we basically told them they are going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg," he said. "Fish and Game claims there are 1,200 moose in the Pittsburg area, and we're saying there are half that. We're not saying we don't have any moose. But in my estimation we've lost 50 to 60 percent of our population in the last two to three years."
Rines said the state only issued 275 permits in the moose hunting lottery for this fall, with 45 in the Colebrook and Pittsburg area. The high for that area was 125 permits back in 2001.
"She (Rines) has already told Fish and Game commissioners that there will be a drastic reduction in the hunt next year," Beaurivage said. "We asked her to do it this year. They should have done it last year. Businesses in this town are writing letters to selectmen because their customers are not seeing moose. Once people don't see moose, they are not coming back."
Landowner concerns
Beaurivage challenged the accuracy of the Fish & Game moose counts, which are based on recorded observations by deer hunters and hardly scientific, he said. He also took issue with the notion that the public wants fewer moose up north to reduce highway collisions.
Beaurivage said hunters are going to become more discouraged, as the number of successful hunts continues to decline, from 100 percent of lottery winners a decade ago to 60 percent in the north region last year.
"In Moose Alley, there aren't any moose," he said. "The joke up here is 'We renamed it Turkey Alley.'"
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