A national network of no-fishing zones could help us avoid the disappearance of popular commercial fish from our plates. "In precolonial Hawaii, a district headman could declare portions of fishing grounds off limits by means of a rule called a kapu." Paul Greenberg calls for kapus off the U.S. coast to save our fisheries.
Posted on May 14, 2007
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