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Coal is on the way out in Beijing, and more cities in China could soon follow the capital's lead. Dangerous smog levels and violent civil unrest have led the city not just to order cutbacks on industrial development, a ban in further expansion for a number of polluting industries and even the move of numerous industrial sectors out of the city altogether to the neighboring region of Hebei, but to announce that by the end of 2020 the use of coal will be banned in Beijing.
Increasingly violent demonstrations by a growing middle class throughout the country have turned the government away from its coal-centric "growth at any cost" policy to a somewhat more environmentally friendly "everything else" strategy. And the repercussions will be felt far beyond coal markets.
The move wasn't sparked so much by a hunger for cleaner air as it was for political stability. "China had been willing to approach pollution as the price of growth, but its undermining party legitimacy. The party wants to maintain power, so if there are social ramifications it undermines power," according to Daniel Rohr, director, basic materials at Morningstar.
But that change in focus will affect the coal market globally, as well as alternative energy markets and other, perhaps more surprising, sectors. Here are 5 effects of the Beijing coal ban.
1. Additional coal bans
Other cities falling prey to industrial pollution will likely follow Beijing's lead, according to Rohr. "Some other first-tier cities could [ban coal, such as] Shanghai, Shenjen," Rohr said, adding that additional bans were most likely along China's eastern seaboard. And while "the coal burned in Beijing proper is a tiny, tiny slice of the coal burned in China," the ban itself is "a powerful symbolic gesture."
2. Imports will fall dramatically and exports will likely resume before long
"[F]or a very, very long time, China didn't need to import any coal at all," said Rohr. "It's only in the last five or six years that it turned to foreign supplies." However, a massive buildup in rail transport that can bring coal from China's own mines in the north to areas where it's needed, combined with newer, more efficient coal plants that deliver way more bang for the buck and an equally massive energy infrastructure buildup that can carry and store energy generated from alternate sources (wind, solar, hydro), will make China far more self-sufficient and even allow the export of coal to resume.
In Morningstar's Basic Materials Observer Burned Out: China's Rebalancing Heralds the End of Coal's Growth Story, Rohr and his colleagues examined the decrease in coal use that they said will far outpace what is predicted by other agencies, including the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the International Energy Agency.
"The past few years of heavy coal imports by a coal-rich China is likely a historical anomaly. Growing domestic production and falling demand suggest that China could revert to its prior status as a major coal exporter by 2017," the report said.
"It's not hard to envision the chain reaction," added Rohr. "China has been importing coal principally from Indonesia and Australia, "both of which are ramping up their capacity to produce." However, when China moves from a major coal importer to importing very little, "that coal will need to find another home," he said.
Indonesian and Australian coal will likely instead be rerouted to India, which "will displace South African coal, which will have to get rerouted into the Atlantic market and try to find a new home in Europe. In turn, with low-cost South African coal and [also] Columbian coal arriving on European shores, it's U.S. producers who lose out. The U.S. is the highest-cost [producer]," said Rohr.
"We would be the first to lose out in that scenario," Rohr said. "U.S. coals get displaced [in Europe] by cheaper South African and Columbian coals, and in the U.S. by cheaper gas and restrictions [on coal use]. Those coals then have no place to go. So the chain reaction is that a new railroad in China puts central Appalachian coal mines out of business."
3. Alternative energy sectors will grow and pricing will change, both inside and outside China
Rohr said that as China's demand for wind turbines and solar expands, prices will rise. Since nuclear energy will also be in greater demand, costs there will rise as well. Someone might "own a uranium mine in Canada, but a ramp-up of nuclear power plants will tighten uranium prices globally and raise prices," no matter where the Canadian mine owner sells the ore.
In addition, China's focus on greater efficiency in sectors that produce as well as transport and store energy could lead, said Rohr, to "more research on other power, rail [and] electric infrastructure."
4. Sectors outside the energy sector will be hit.
China is revamping its economic output to reduce its electricity intensity—the amount of electricity required to contribute to each dollar of GDP. "Infrastructure and real estate have pushed China's electrical intensity," said Rohr. Both require heavy energy use.
However, as the country moves away from unrestrained building of both infrastructure and housing/commercial structures its "electricity intensity falls, and it will diminish the electricity intensity of the real estate growth model and every industry that feeds into that—steel, mining, copper and zinc, producers of mining equipment, construction equipment … such a big economic force is far-reaching and doesn't hit just coal," Rohr said.
5. China could lead the way in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
While this might be the most surprising, it also has its own global implications. Because China's switch from coal is accompanied by greater efficiency in its newer coal plants, as well as massive improvements in rail infrastructure for the transport of domestic coal within the country and long-distance ultra-high-voltage lines to handle the transport of alternative energy from its source to destinations throughout the country, electricity demand—although expected to continue to grow—will actually increase far less than expected.
Slowing growth and greater efficiency together, on a scale as large as China's, leads to a rebalancing of energy usage and demand that the Morningstar report said would be enough to allow the requirements of the IEA's 450 Scenario—the policy changes necessary to slow CO2 emissions enough to limit the increase in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius and eventually stabilize at around 450 parts per million—to be met.
China's notorious air pollution is commonly measured by PM2.5, which refers to particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter. Such particles can't be seen individually with the naked eye, but in the concentrations that make up Beijing's smog, they're all too easy to see. According to the Morningstar report, "The environmental benefits of a rebalancing China extend well beyond its borders. The combination of factors that cuts PM2.5 concentrations will do the same for CO2 emissions."
And because the effects of China's change in policies are so far-reaching, Rohr and his colleagues, in their largely contrarian view of China's departure from coal, believe that the IEA's 450 Scenario will be met without any additional stringent policy changes.


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This season Milan is kicking its conservative image and sending some seriously sporty bling down the runways. Christina Binkley joins Lunch Break with the fashion report from the fashion capital of Italy. Photo: AP.
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As I was gathering up all the undergarments and drug paraphernalia from the grotto, I found myself thinking about work/life balance. It's been a huge topic among moms forever, but in this time of elevated expectations, dads are feeling it, too. I wish I could write more about it, but the truth is I'm terribly unqualified to do so.
Because at this moment, right now, pending the inevitable cataclysmic event that will screw everything up, my work/life balance is really great.
I'm not sure how it happened, but I guess it dates back to my dad, whose bankers' hours brought him home at the exact time every night. Door, kiss, couch, martini, right before dinner. The steadiness of his routine is sort of amazing, when I think about it. But that's the model I had to work with when I envisioned my own fatherhood, and I think it's served me pretty well.
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House Rejects Further NEA Cuts! - (July 29, 2011)
Bipartisan Effort Protects NEA from Further Cuts!
Washington, D.C. - Bipartisanship in Washington? Yes! Just yesterday, House Republicans and Democracts acted together to support funding for the arts, defeating an amendment that would have further reduced NEA funding.
- An amendment offered by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) would have decreased FY12 NEA funding to $124.4 million, and was defeated yesterday by a vote of 181-240, with 55 Republicans voting in opposition to the amendment.
- Just five months ago, when Rep. Walberg offered an amendment to decrease FY11 NEA funding to $124.4 million, the amendment passed in the House by a vote of 217-209. The ultimate FY11 bill approved by Congress contained $155 million for the NEA.
Several key bipartisan developments combined to influence the outcome of yesterday's vote. Thanks to YOUR ADVOCACY, extraordinary leadership by the Congressional Arts Caucus Co-chairs Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Todd Platts (R-PA), compelling remarks in support of the NEA on the House floor by Interior Appropriations Committee Chairman Mike Simpson (R-ID), and a White House veto threat opposing the already-lowered funding level, the NEA was spared further cuts yesterday.
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6D Helmets Loretta Lynn's Report
Brea, Calif. – A week of inconsistent weather and constantly changing track conditions is what most participants of the 32nd annual AMA Loretta Lynn's Amateur National Motocross Championship will remember most. 6D Helmets was on hand to support the event and display the ATR-1 helmet while many 6D helmeted riders endured the severe conditions all week long. 6D riders brought home 4 championships and we are very proud to be a small part of their success!
Factory Connection Amsoil team rider Jordon Smith was a favorite to win a couple of championships. Despite terrible misfortune in his 250 B motos, Jordon showed he is a force to be reckoned with by scoring a perfect 1-1- 1 in the 250 B Limited class for the overall.
One of the most talked about stories of the event was Jerry Robin, the young man who qualified on a 28 year old machine. Jerry would race his '85 CR250 in the 250 B class where he battled stiff competition to finish 11th overall! After a mechanical failure sidelined his race bike, Jerry won the Two-Stroke B/C (16+) championship with a dominating 1,5,1 score on a borrowed 2007 CR250 in an amazing feat of determination and will.
Kawasaki Team Green's Keith Johnson captured his seventh amateur national title of his career this year. Keith won his first two motos in the Senior 40+ class and carded third in his last moto with a brilliant come from behind race after a terrible first turn crash. Congratulations Keith!
Adam Nickerson raced to 3 podium finishes and wrapped up the 250C Limited title with consistent 3-1-2 scores in another outstanding effort for this young racer.
6D's Loretta Lynn's gallery is now up on our 6D Facebook Fan Page. Check out photos from the week and we invite you to share your own photos and tag your friends too!
6D Helmets would like to thank the many racers, parents, and fans that stopped by our booth during the week to learn more about our helmet and its technology. Special thanks go to everyone who contributed to making this past week possible for 6D including the LaFountaine family, MX Sports, Cernics' Suzuki, Eric Grondahl, and all of the team at Factory Connection.


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Sterne Agee, a privately owned investment banking and brokerage firm in Birmingham, Ala., opened a wealth and estate management group last week.
Sterne Agee said in a statement that the new group will take a multigenerational approach to family governance, wealth transfer strategies, investment management, risk management, philanthropy and financial management.
"Our group offers the client a single point of contact for wealth and estate management which is particularly helpful in coordinating complex wealth transfer strategies," Hanson Slaughter, the group's executive managing director, said in the statement. "The efficiencies gained in the coordinated effort allow our clients full access to the full breadth and depth of our platform."
Ann Haas and Barry McRae, both managing directors, round out the leadership of the group, which has more than 60 years of combined financial services and family office experience.
"The Wealth and Estate Management Group allows our firm to better serve clients whose needs go beyond traditional brokerage services," said Jim Holbrook, chairman and CEO of Sterne Agee Group.
Sterne Agee has been serving clients since 1901 and manages more than $17 billion for some 140,000 clients across the country.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Cato's Letters, or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects (London: Witkins, Woodward, Walthoe, and Peele, 1737). Vol. 2. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/822,
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert. After they got their tent all set up, both men fell sound asleep.
Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and says, "Kemo Sabe, look towards sky, what you see?"
The Lone Ranger replies, "I see millions of stars."
"What that tell you?" asked Tonto.
The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute then says, "Astronomically speaking, it tells me there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets."
"Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo."
"Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three in the morning."
"Theologically, it tells me that the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant."
"Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What's it tell you, Tonto?"
"You dumber than buffalo shit. It mean someone stole the tent."


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16 years after taking over his father Gaetano's business, and in the midst of an economic recession, Carmine Gangone made the move to open a second Brooklyn location.
"It's never a good time to open up a new restaurant," said Gangone, "but I think in the long run it will all pay off."
Doubtful Carmine's fans, take note: the food at the new restaurant is just as good and the atmosphere is just as welcoming. The seating capacity remains the same, but Carmine's II features a smaller, revamped menu and more specials than the original location, a strategy that will hopefully draw in more customers and get the new crowds in town to the restaurant.
"Sometimes smaller means bigger," said Gangone.
Carmines II also features an outdoor garden that gives patrons the feeling that they are in Italy or café-style Europe.
As part of a grand opening celebration for Carmine's II and to encourage people to check out the new location, Gangone is hosting an outdoor film festival of Italian films, which will be presented on a 9 feet high by 12 foot wide screen, with seating to accommodate more than 40 people. The films are complimentary for outdoor diners who order dinner, desert or both.
"I'm trying to find myself a meaning in this new place, like another place to call home," said Gangone. "With these movies being shown, I'm connecting with the people of Williamsburg, who are very known to be involved with the arts."
The classic films will be shown nightly at 8:30 p.m. through Sunday, June 27. The schedule is as follows: Il Mostro (Thursday 6/24), La Dolce Vita (Friday 6/25), Cinema Paradiso (Saturday 6/26) and Big Night (Sunday 6/27). Each screening will be preceded by the live music of Jimmy the Legend, starting at 7:00 p.m.
Carmine's II is located at 436 Union Avenue in Williamsburg. For more information, visit www.carminespizzeria.com.


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Apple ordered to share HTC deal details with Samsung
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A US judge has ordered Apple to disclose details of its patent-sharing deal with HTC to its rival, Samsung.
Apple and HTC signed a 10-year licence agreement earlier this month, but did not make the details public.
Samsung, which is also involved in various patent disputes with Apple, asked the courts to tell Apple to furnish the information.
It said it was "almost certain" the deal covered some of the patents at the centre of its dispute with Apple.
The court ordered Apple to produce a full copy of the settlement agreement "without delay", subject to an "attorneys' eyes only" designation, meaning it will not be made public.
The deal between Apple and HTC saw the two firms settle all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010.
According to some reports, the two companies were fighting almost 20 cases across the globe.
Legal advantage
While that fight has ended, Apple is still involved in legal tussles with Samsung.
The two rivals have filed cases against each other in more than 10 countries, each accusing the other of violating its patents.
Earlier this year, a Californian court awarded Apple $1.05bn (£652m) in damages against Samsung, after ruling that several of its software and design technologies had been infringed.
However, the South Korean firm has appealed against the ruling and has called for a retrial.
Some analysts said that the latest decision by the court, giving Samsung access to Apple's deal with HTC, may have a big impact on Samsung's legal battle with Apple.
"It is clearly a very smart move from Samsung - because the general feeling is that a lot of its patent disputes with Apple are very likely to be similar to those between HTC and Apple," Andrew Milroy of consultancy Frost & Sullivan told the BBC.
"And if there are similarities, it gives Samsung an advantage in any future legal issues and negotiations with Apple."
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The decision is the latest setback for Apple in its various legal clashes with rivals.
Last month, Apple lost its appeal against a UK ruling that Samsung had not infringed its design rights.
In a further blow, the US technology firm was asked by a UK High Court to publish a statement on its website admitting that Samsung had not infringed its designs.
Sales bans sought by Apple against Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the US were also lifted in October.
Then, earlier this month, a judge in the US dismissed a case brought by Apple alleging that Google's Motorola unit was seeking excessive royalty payments for patents.
"Apple has been having a really bad time of late in its legal battles," said Mr Milroy. "They are going to have to re-examine the legal approach they take from here on."


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FoodSnob77 wrote:Does anyone out there know of any places that have better skirt steak tacos than Las Asadas? I'm content with my search, it ends here.
MBK wrote:for me, the short list consists of handmade tortillas, off the cone pastor and the ever rare "charcoal" grilled steak. that said, asadas does the job for good "flame" grilled flavor most the time.
seebee wrote:The heat level on their salsa irks me when it's off. Soemtimes it will fry you, other times it is little more than limey tangy green stuff. Most of the time, tho, it packs at least some kind of heat. It really ticks me off when it's weak tho. If you're ever up that way again looking for char grilled steak tacos, check into Zacatacos on Harlem just north of Pershing rd. If you are in the mood for company, let me know. If I'm around, I'm always down for some steak tacos at either joint. Today would have been prime taco lunch day. Heading to the dentist in a little while...Gonna get some work done
not sure, i think mike g or someone wrote about one
On my last visit I ordered a super burrito to go. $7 and i ate it over the course of 3 days. What a steal.
seebee wrote:Uh-Oh!
Sounds like another budding addict. Just kidding. Although, if you get a batch of good (sizzlin hot) salsa on the same day you get their A grade steak, it's hard not to develop the habit.
jimswside wrote:seebee wrote:Uh-Oh!
Sounds like another budding addict. Just kidding. Although, if you get a batch of good (sizzlin hot) salsa on the same day you get their A grade steak, it's hard not to develop the habit.
maybe my taste buds are just warped by all the habaneros I eat.
The smell of grilling steak almost had me turning back around to head back in after I had already eaten. THe place was surprisngly empty for 11:45 when I left.
Amata wrote:I haven't been to the one in Des Plaines but I think the one on Western is excellent.
DutchMuse wrote:Great; thanks guys!
Mccarlin wrote: I have had some bad times at the elk Grove village location as they seem to make a LOT of meet at once and put in the metal tin till ordered, the steak then soaks up all the grease and makes a burrito mess.
DutchMuse wrote:OK, here's an emergency question for LTH'ers. Reading about the steak tacos and burritos has me crazy to try them.
My question: Is there a reason for me to drive the distance to Des Plaines, or is the one on Western (far closer to me) equal?
Help; I'm going for lunch today!


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Some say that organic farming means going "backwards." These farmers think otherwise.
February 15, 2011
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One of the biggest myths about organic farmers is that they are "unscientific" and "backward." After time in the southern Philippines with Danilo and Carlito, we learn something quite different.
Danilo is slight in build, with a deep tan and a shy but engaging smile. We stand at the edge of his hectare of neat, nearly mature, green rice stalks, our gaze drawn to Mt. Apo, the Philippines' largest peak, rising majestically in the southwest. "It is all 'zero-chem,' that is to say organic," Danilo tells us proudly.
It was the simple economics of organic farming that won Danilo over. He calculates that his costs have fallen from about $400 each planting-to-harvest cycle to roughly $160, and that his yields have dipped only a bit. Bottom line: he is making a lot more money each harvest. Every organic farming family we talked to reported lower costs and, as a result, liberation from the debts that haunted their lives. Health is also a key factor: Danilo describes the spells of dizziness that he used to suffer when spraying chemical pesticides before his switch to organic rice.
As we talk, "farmer scientist" Carlito pulls up on his motorcycle, dressed in a white racing jersey and dark glasses. Carlito works for a local citizens group called the Davao Provinces Rural Development Institute (DPRDI) that is helping farmers shift from chemical to organic rice and providing continued support after they do so. Carlito is not a formally trained agricultural scientist; he is largely self-taught and he scoffs at the chemically oriented mindset of the agricultural schools.
Danilo is concerned that some of his rice leaves have turned red recently, so he contacted Carlito. They fall into a deep discussion about whether to ignore the red leaves for now or spray them with what they are calling a "concoction." Carlito is a humble yet animated person, with an easy, joking manner. A farmer himself, he knows that decisions about rice are life and death for farmers, and he treats Danilo with deep respect. In the end, they decide to make the final choice the next day when Carlito will stop by again.
We ask more about what's in the "concoction" they're thinking of spraying. Carlito invites us to his barrio where his wife Bibing and her neighbors agree to show us how to make the various natural "concoctions" that have replaced chemical fertilizers and pesticides in organic agriculture. We are, of course, game. At their home, Bibing and three friends feed us lunch. Then, they light a fire under a large pot filled with water, and tell us how they began to make these mixtures. "In 1997, the DPRDI taught us how to make eight different concoctions," one tells us. "Some are made with fermented fruits, some with vegetables, some with fish bones or egg shells, or with seaweed. Some help prepare the soil; some discourage certain viruses or pests."
Another woman adds: "All the ingredients are grown here or available at the local market. Each member of our group focused on one of the concoctions, and we sold quite a bit in the first few years." Bibing laughs with pride as she describes their short-lived financial success: "Then, many farmers learned to make them on their own, and our sales went down."
With organic farming, each day is new adventure of weeding, monitoring insects, making concoctions, and weighing options. To Danilo, this is empowering rather than overwhelming.
As the water starts to boil, Bibing stirs in carefully measured amounts of molasses and then seaweed. The fire is hot and, with sweat rolling off their faces, the women take turns stirring. As Carlito cuts bananas to ferment for another concoction, he explains that the recipes came originally from the innovations of Korean organic farmers. After the designated 45 minutes of cooking and stirring, the seaweed concoction is finished and ready for fermentation in an air-tight container.
The next afternoon, we travel back at Danilo's rice field to see whether he has chosen to spray. He tells us that he and Carlito have decided that the red stalks are not dangerous at this point in the rice growing cycle. Instead, his nephew is now spraying an aged batch of the seaweed concoction cooked by Bibing's group to make the rice stalks firmer as they grow heavier.
"The timing of spraying is as important as what to spray," Danilo explains. At around 5 a.m. and again at 4 p.m. each day, "the vegetation is moist with dew and comes alive with insects." As we edge into his rice field, Danilo serves as our teacher of the animal life on and around his ripe stalks. In Hollywood, spiders periodically star in horror movies. In Danilo's rice field, they are friends that eat the larvae of the "bad" stem borers. We discover a batch of bright red snail eggs, but Danilo is not concerned. They are a pest at planting time, he explains, because they eat the young rice shoots; now, close to harvest, they are helping by eating the weeds.
As we jot down the names and descriptions of various bugs and watch Danilo's nephew spray, it's clear that organic farming has evolved far beyond simple composting of biomass. It requires a mix of science, math, common sense, and hard work. Unlike chemical farming, with organic farming each day is new adventure of weeding, monitoring insects, making concoctions, and weighing options. To Danilo, this is empowering rather than overwhelming.
Many outsiders believe that the farmers who embrace chemical agriculture are the ones embracing science and progress. But in different farms around the world, we are discovering that the true pioneers of a healthier, debt-free, and more "scientific" food future are organic farmers such as Danilo.
John Cavanagh and Robin Broad wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Robin is a Professor of International Development at American University in Washington, D.C. and has worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Congress. John is on leave from directing the Institute for Policy Studies, and is co-chair (with David Korten) of the New Economy Working Group. They are co-authors of three books on the global economy, and are currently traveling the country and the world to write a book entitled Local Dreams: Finding Rootedness in the Age of Vulnerability. Over the decades, this husband and wife team has worked in a number of countries, including the Philippines, where Robin first lived in 1977-78.
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Effects of fisheries on European marine biodiversity
Fishing is the most widespread human exploitative activity in the marine environment. Pauly and Christenen (1995) estimated that over 20 % of the primary production is required to sustain fisheries in many intensively fished coastal ecosystems.[1]
Fishing has a number of direct effects on marine ecosystems because it is responsible for increasing mortality of target and by-catch species; an important physical impact on the habitat of benthic organisms is caused by bottom trawling. The direct effects of fishing have indirect implications for other species as well. Fisheries remove prey that piscivorous fishes, birds and mammals would otherwise consume, or may remove predators that would otherwise control prey populations. Reductions in the density of some species may affect competitive interactions and result in the proliferation of non-target species. The activities of fisheries also favour scavengers, they obtain more food by the discarded by-catch and because a range of species are killed, but not retained by towed gears.[2]
- 1 Direct effects of fishing
- 2 Indirect effects of fisheries
- 3 See also
- 4 References
Direct effects of fishing
Direct effects on target species
Global landing of fish and other marine catches began stagnating in the early 1980s.[3] Biomass in the North Atlantic fell by 90 % during the twentieth century, leading to declines of catches throughout the North Atlantic, notably in eastern Canada. It has taken less than a century for North Atlantic fisheries to reduce the biomass of the high-trophic-level fishes to under 10% of their original amounts.[4]
Historically, fishing started at the top of most food chains by removing the highly valuable and more easily cacheable species, then moved down to the next biggest species as those above were depleted and were no longer easily or economically caught. The downward shift towards fish catches of lower trophic levels results in 'fishing down the food web'. The mean trophic level of reported catches had declined over the years. For all marine areas, the trend has been a decline in the mean trophic level of the fisheries landings form slightly more than 3.3 in the early 1950s to less than 3.1 in 1994.[5]
Another shift in the global landings of fishes in the last 50 year is from shallow to deeper water species; this resulted in the fact that the mean longevity of the fish species caught, has increased dramatically. This trend is a serious concern because species with larger body size, longer life span, later sexual maturity and slow growth (e.g. Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula, Rays, Conger eel Conger conger) are more vulnerable to overfishing.[6]
Direct effects on by-catch species
Benthic organisms and other unwanted by-catch are often discarded and a range of species are killed, but not retained by towed gears.
Some by-catch species have been affected dramatically by fishing. For example, the sizes of three dolphin populations (a Stenella longirostris population, a S. attenuata population and a second S. longirostris population) caught by tuna boats in the eastern tropical Pacific were reduced to 20%, 35-50% and 58-72% of pre-exploitation levels by 1997.[2]
Direct effects of physical disturbance
The direct effects of fishing, related to physical disturbance include the scraping, scouring and resuspension of the substratum. The effects vary according to the gears used and the habitats fished.[2]
It seems reasonable to predict that the effects of physical disturbance will be short-lived in communities adapted to frequent natural perturbations (e.g. a cockle community) in contrast to those communities found in habitats exposed to fewer disturbances (e.g. the abyssal plane).[2]
The changes associated with physical disturbance are relatively short-lived for the majority of small species, longer-lived organisms decolonize more slowly. For example, Beukema (1995) reported that the biomass of gaper clams, Mya arenaria L., took 2 years to recover after lugworm dredging in the Wadden Sea, whereas small polychaetes and bivalves had recolonized the dredged areas within 12 months.[2]
Communities dominated by long-lived suspension feeders are most likely to be replaced by a community of opportunistic deposit-feeding species and mobile epifauna when subjected to large-scale and intense fishing disturbance. More dramatically, biogenic structures that increase the complexity of the epibenthic habitat (e.g. worm tubes) create specialized environmental conditions by altering local hydrographic conditions that encourage the development of a specialized associated community. Loss of such structures will also affect the survivorship of any associated species and prolong the recolonisation process.[2]
A particular sensitive hard-bottom habitat is the deep-water coral (the basis for the reef formation is Lophelia pertusa) communities. These communities are mainly found at the offshore shelf edges of the Arctic and North-Atlantic ocean. Some offshore reefs have experienced considerable damage due to trawling activities. The Lophelia reefs have recently (since 1999) been protected from fishing activities by the Norwegian authorities.[7]
In soft mud communities a large proportion of the fauna live in burrows up to 2 m deep.[8] Few of these deep burrowing fauna are likely to be affected by passing trawls. However, the energetic costs of repeated burrow reconstruction may have long-term implications for the survivorship of individuals.
Sessile epibenthic species are most likely to be vulnerable to the passage of bottom gears. The disappearance of reefs of the calcareous tube building worm, Sabellaria spinulosa Leukart and their replacement by small polychaete communities, indicated that dredging activity had caused measurable changes in the Wadden Sea benthic community.[9]
Changes attributed to the fisheries are identified in the mesozooplankton composition. For instance, the mesozooplankton taken in continuous plankton recorder samples in the central North Sea were numerically dominated by calanoid copepods from 1958 to the late 1970s, whereas samples taken from the same stations from the early 1980s to early 1990s were dominated by the pluteus larvae of echinoid and ophiuroid echinoderms. This trend is consistent with the reported increases in the abundance of echinoderms in benthic communities which may have been stimulated, in part, by bottom trawling.[10]
Static bottom gears are anchored to the seabed and left to fish passively. The most commonly used are gill, trammel or tangle nets, which are designed to capture target species by enmeshing or tangling them.[11][12]
Net and pot fisheries are static, for this reason , the areas of seabed affected by each gear is insignificant compared with the widespread effects of mobile fishing gears. However, effort may be significant if concentrated in relatively small areas with communities of long-lived fauna (e.g. the foliose bryozoan Pentapora foliacea).
Indirect effects of fisheries
Effects of 'ghost-fishing'
When nets or catch-pots are lost, they may continue to fish. This phenomenon is known as 'ghost-fishing'. In circumstances where nets or pots are snagged onto rocks, holding the net in place, or lost in relatively stable deep water environments, they may continue to fish indefinitely. In these cases, a typical pattern of capture is observed. Over the first few days, catches decline almost exponentially as the increasing weight of catch causes the net to collapse. Then, for the next few weeks, the decaying bodies of fishes and Crustacea attract large number of scavenging crustaceans, many of which are valuable commercial species and also become entangled in the net. Thereafter, there appears to be a continuous cycle of capture, decay and attraction for as long as the net has some entanglement properties.[13]
Trophic cascading effect
Changes in one level of a food web can also have cascading effects on others. For example in the Black Sea, a trophic cascade has acted by fishery removals of apex predators (bonito Sarda sarda, mackerel Scomber scombrus , bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix, dolphins) which caused a decreased consumer control and lead to higher abundance of planktivorous fish (i.e. Black Sea sprat Clupeonella cultriventris, anchovy Engraulis encrasicholus, horse mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus). The increased consumption by planktivorous fish causes a decline in zooplankton biomass that in turns allowed phytoplankton to increase. This chain of events is thought to explain the explosions of phytoplankton and jellyfish reported in the Black Sea over the past 30 years.[14]
'Food-web' competition
An apex predator may be affected by fisheries even when the prey and species caught do not overlap. This has been termed 'food-web competition'.[15] Food-web competition occurs when there is potential overlap of the trophic flows supporting a given group (e.g. marine mammals) with the trophic flows supporting another group (e.g. fisheries). The relationship between the size of fishery catches and the amounts of primary production required to sustain fisheries and marine mammals suggests that the primary production available to marine mammals may decline as catches increase.[4]
Effects on phenotypic evolution
Large changes in size-at-age and age-at-maturation of commercially exploited fish have been reported in a number of ecosystems. Survival and reproduction are functions of body size. Small fish generally incur higher mortality rates and produce fewer eggs than larger fish.
Gear is designed to remove some kinds of individuals in preference to others, usually individuals that are larger and, indirectly, older. The location of fishing is often non-random relative to spatial distributions of stocks, being concentrated where the harvestable biomass is greatest or where fishes are most accessible, or both. Fishing mortality is therefore selective with respect both to species and to phenotypic variation within species.[16][17][2] Moreover, even a uniform change in overall mortality is evolutionarily selective. This happens because mortality discounts fitness gains incurred in late life; traits such as maturation that involve trade-offs between fitness gains in early and late life are therefore affected by a change in mortality, selective or not.
There are strong indications that the observed changes have partly a genetic basis. However, it is difficult to distinguish genetic evolution from phenotypic plasticity, i.e., a tendency of phenotypic traits to take different values depending on the current environmental conditions. Rijnsdorp (1993)[18] carried out a study to disentangle the causes of a major phenotypic change in maturation of North Sea plaice (Pleuronectes platessa). He concluded that a substantial part of the change in maturation is consistent with genetic change caused by fishing. Simply through the action of fishing, fisheries generate selection, causing evolution in life-history traits. More recently, similar results have been obtained for many different fish populations[19] [20], although the extent to which the documented changes are genetic versus environmental remains debated[21].
The common trend is a decreased age-at-maturation in heavily exploited fish stocks[19] [20], but this selection pattern is not always consistent. For instance, there are two spatially separated fisheries targeting cod (Gadus morhua) in the Barents Sea: a feeder (exploitation of the stock on the feeding grounds) and a spawner fishery (exploitation of the stock on the spawning grounds). Fishing confined to the spawning grounds gives an advantage to late maturation. This is because the extra mortality due to fishing on the spawning grounds makes it advantageous to grow for longer before maturation and thereby to produce more eggs when risking a visit to the spawning ground. If fishing mortality on the feeding grounds is added on, the relatively small advantage to late maturation is changed to a large advantage to early maturation.[22][23] Remaining on the feeding grounds is now itself risky, and a fish that does not mature until about, say 8 years of age is most likely to be caught before it spawns.
Current patterns of fishing generate strong selection for early maturation and, given appropriate genetic variation, substantial genetic change can be expected. But, if one were to try to reverse the process by closing the fishery, selection for later maturation would be weak. In other words, it could be hard to undo the effects of inadvertent selection caused by fishing.
Impact of discard
Indirect effects of physical disturbance
The resuspension, transport and subsequent deposition of sediment may affect the settlement and feeding of the biota in other areas.[2]
The potential effects of sediment resuspension include clogging of feeding apparatus or reduction of light availability[24] and sediment deposition has been shown to inhibit the settlement and growth of oysters and scallops.[25][26]
Mobile gears effects the epifauna by modification of substrata and removal of biogenic concretions and a consequent decline in the abundance of fauna associated with them. The loss of biogenic species not only reduces the supply of important prey species, but also increases predation risk for juvenile commercial species thereby lowering subsequent recruitment to the adult stocks.[27]
See also
- ↑ Pauly, D. & Christensen, V.(1995). Primary production required to sustain global fisheries. Nature 374: 255-257.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Jennings, S.& Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352. Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Watson, R. & Pauly, D. (2001). Systematic distortion in world fisheries catch trends. Nature 414 (6863): 534-536.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Christensen, V.; Guénette, S.; Heymans, J.J. et al. (2003). Hundred-year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes. Fish Fisher 4: 1-24. cit. in: Trites, A.W.; Christensen, V.; Pauly, D. (2006). Effects of fisheries on ecosystems: just another top predator?, in: Boyd, I.L. et al. (Ed.) (2006). Top predators in marine ecosystems: their role in monitoring and management. Conservation Biology 12:11-27. Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Pauly, D.; Christenen, V.; Dalsgaard, J.; Froese, R.; Torres, F. Jr. (1998). Fishing Down Marine Food Webs. Science 279: 860-863.
- ↑ Morato, T.; Watson, R.; Pitcher, T., J. & Pauly, D. (2006). Fishing down the deep. fish and fisheries 7: 24-34.
- ↑ EEA report (2002). Europe's biodiversity – biogeographical regions and seas – biogeographical regions in Europe – The Arctic Ocean
- ↑ Atkinson, R.J.A. & Nash, R.D.M. (1990). Some preliminary observations on the burrows of Callianassa subterranean (Montagu) (Decapoda: thalassinidae) from the west coast of Scotland. Journal of Natural History 24: 403-413. cit in: Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Riesen, W. & Riese, K. (1982). Macrobenthos of the subtidal Wadden Sea: reveisited after 55 years. Helgolander Meeresuntersuchungen 35: 409-423. cit in: Jennings, S.; Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Lindley, J.A.; Gamble, J.C. & Hunt, H.G. (1995). A change in the zooplankton of the central North Sea (55° to 58°N): a possible consequence of changes in the benthos. Marine Ecology Progress Series 119: 299-303. cit in: Jennings, S.; Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Miller, R.J. (1977). Resource underutilization in a spider crab industry. Fisheries 2: 9-13.
- ↑ Potter, E.C.E. & Pawson, M.G. (1991). Gill netting. Laboratory leaflets, MAFF, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Lowestoft 69, 34pp.
- ↑ Carr, H.A.; Blott, A.J. & Caruso, P.G. (1992). A study of ghost gillnets in the inshore waters of southern New England. In "MTS" 92: Global Ocean Partnership", pp. 361-367. Marine Technology Society, Washington D.C. cit. in: Jennings, S.; Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Daskalov, G.M. (2002). Overfishing drives a trophic cascade in the Black Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 225: 53-63.
- ↑ Trites, A.; Christensen, V. & Pauly, D. (1997). Competition between fisheries and marine mammals for prey and primary production in the Pacific Ocean. Journal North West Atlantic Fisheries Science 22: 173-187. cit. in: Trites, A.W.; Christensen, V.; Pauly, D. (2006). Effects of fisheries on ecosystems: just another top predator?, in: Boyd, I.L. et al. (Ed.) (2006). Top predators in marine ecosystems: their role in monitoring and management. Conservation Biology 12: 11-27.
- ↑ Stokes, T.K.; McGlade, J.M. & Law, R. (eds) (1993). The exploitation of Evolving Resources. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 99. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 264 pp.
- ↑ Law, R. (2000). Fishing, selection, and phenotypic evolution. ICES Journal of Marine Science 57: 659-668.
- ↑ Rijnsdorp, A.D. (1993). Fisheries as a large-scale experiment on life-history evolution: disentangling phenotypic and genetic effects in changes in maturation and reproduction of North Sea plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L. Oecologia 96:391-401.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Jørgensen, C., K. Enberg, E. S. Dunlop, et al. (2007) Managing evolving fish stocks. Science 318: 1247-1248.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Heino, M. and U. Dieckmann (2008) Detecting fisheries-induced life-history evolution: an overview of the reaction-norm approach. Bulletin of Marine Science 83: 69-93.
- ↑ Marshall, C. T. and H. I. Browman, eds. (2007) Disentangling the causes of maturation trends in exploited fish populations. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 335: 249–310.
- ↑ Borisov, V.M. (1978). The selective effect of fishing on the population structure of species with a long life cycle. Journal of Ichthyology 18: 896-904.
- ↑ Law, R. & Grey, D.R. (1989). Evolution of yields from populations with age-specific cropping. Evolutionary Ecology 3: 343-359.
- ↑ Rhoads, D.C. (1974). Organism-sediment relations on the muddy sea floor. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review 12: 263-300. cit. in: Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Moore, P.G (1977). Inorganic particulate suspensions in the sea and their effects on marine animals. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review 15: 225-363. cit. in: Jennings, S. & Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Jones, J.B. (1992). Environmental impact of trawling on the seabed: a review. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater research 26: 59-67. cit. in: Jennings, S.& Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
- ↑ Walters, C.J. & Juanes, F. (1993). Recruitment limitations as a consequence of natural selection for use of restricted feeding habitats and predation risk taking by juvenile fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 50: 2058-2070. cit. in: Jennings, S.; Kaiser, M. (1998). The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352.
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Court to review Native American adoption case
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a ruling that sent a South Carolina couple's adopted Native American daughter back to her biological father in Oklahoma.
The high court agreed to hear an appeal by Matt and Melanie Capobianco over the fate of 3-year-old Veronica. The couple's adoption of the girl was overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court, which said the girl must go back to Oklahoma to be with her biological father, Dusten Brown, a member of the Cherokee Nation.
The state court said the federal Indian Child Welfare Act gives custodial preference to the girl's father. That act was passed in 1978 because of the high number of Indian children then being removed from their homes by public and private agencies. The act gives the child's tribe and family the right to have a say in decisions affecting the child.
The Capobiancos want that decision overturned. Because it is an adoption case, the appeal to the Supreme Court does not mention specific names for privacy reasons, although the South Carolina couple identified themselves in media interviews and released the name of their adopted daughter.
The Capobiancos, who live on James Island just outside Charleston, adopted Veronica after attending the girl's birth and caring for her thereafter. But Brown later went to court seeking custody, which was granted by the South Carolina court. He then took the girl back to Oklahoma in 2011.
Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree said he was surprised that the Supreme Court chose to hear the case, especially since the South Carolina court had already ruled.
"This is a matter that is of utmost importance to all of Indian Country," Hembree said in a statement Friday. "Our children are our future, and the Cherokee Nation stands ready to defend the rights of Native American children to be raised in Native American homes."
The case will be heard by the Supreme Court later this year.