Search Results for: America

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NUCLEAR probe developed by Australia’s national science authority CSIRO could cut acid rain rates, claims its inventors. It can detect the sulphur content of coal underground, allowing miners to choose seams with low concentrations of this pollutant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, PHILIP FINE and ALAN OSBORN

THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FOUR members of America’s Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees, including its president, Bruce Raynor, are being sued by a bullet-resistant vest manufacturer for allegedly defaming the quality of their protective textiles. Florida-based Point Blank says the four knowingly lied to media, police and retailers about subcontracting operations, claiming they negatively affecting vest quality.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S National Milk Producers Federation has come out against a

recently-announced free trade agreement between Australia and the United

States. Next February, the two governments will be entering trade negotiations, with the goal of completing a bilateral free trade pact by 2004.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NUCLEAR probe developed by Australia’s national science authority, CSIRO, could be used in the promotion and marketing of low sulphur coal, claims its inventors. The quipment can measure the sulphur content of coal underground, allowing miners to choose seams with less sulphur.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CITY of Santa Clarita, California, has launched America’s first nappy recycling programme which will pick up nappies from 500 families in special plastic bags. The recovered material will help make non-food packaging and products including wallpaper, oil filters, and shoe insoles.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
A NUCLEAR probe developed in Australia for minerals exploration and mining has the potential to reduce rates of acid rain and other environmental pollution, its developers claim.

The device, designed by Australia’s chief science authority CSIRO, can detect the concentrations of sulphur in coal seams and mine waste rock underground, allowing miners to choose those with lower levels and leave the higher sulphur coals embedded.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S now official. Following agreement this week by its environment ministers, the European Union (EU) is to set up a market to trade pollution permits for carbon dioxide (CO2), the main so-called greenhouse gas, starting in 2005.

The European Commission is delighted, business is pleased, and while not all environmentalists are overjoyed, the balance of opinion among them is clearly favourable.…