{"id":275,"date":"2003-05-31T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T01:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/05\/31\/cant-lay-off-the-fish-stories\/"},"modified":"2003-05-31T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T01:45:44","slug":"cant-lay-off-the-fish-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/05\/31\/cant-lay-off-the-fish-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t lay off the fish stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a130'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Africa&#8217;s bushmeat trade, which is forcing several rare species towards extinction, is fuelled by European Union policy<\/i>, according to John Lawton, the head of the UK&#8217;s Natural Environment Research Council.  Seems <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/2944796.stm\">the West is overfishing<\/a> with huge factory-type trawlers far off-shore, which deplete the fish stocks closer to shore where the <i>artisinal<\/i> fishers work (i.e., the people actually fishing to feed their families and communities), and this is forcing the latter to hunt <i>bushmeat<\/i>, including rare and endangered species.  <\/p>\n<p>Further north, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/2948720.stm\">wild salmon stock is declining drastically<\/a> in Scotland, due largely to the sea lice clustered around farmed salmon sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#8217;s bushmeat trade, which is forcing several rare species towards extinction, is fuelled by European Union policy, according to John Lawton, the head of the UK&#8217;s Natural Environment Research Council. Seems the West is overfishing with huge factory-type trawlers far off-shore, which deplete the fish stocks closer to shore where the artisinal fishers work (i.e., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}