[Paddlewise] We Ate Too Much: Abalone

A quote from the Tidepool, a local news 'zine (http://www.tidepool.org/) from
a Washington Post article -- note that the URL below may not work directly
because I had to accept a cookie to get to the article.  Use the Tidepool URL
above if the one below does not work.

> Abalone May Be Near Extinction > (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/01/116l-110199-idx.html)
>  And so it has come to this: The rapacious appetite of humankind has pushed a
>  lowly sea snail to the point where federal regulators are considering adding 
>  it to that sad ledger known as the Endangered Species List. In other words,
>  this may be the first time that we as a species literally have eaten a marine
>  invertebrate to near-extinction. Until now, scientists and resource managers
>  thought this would be impossible. But we have done it (11.1.99)    From the
>  Washington Post.

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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