Feb
27
2009
Unbefreakinglievable. Sewage spills foul San Francisco Bay over and over SAN FRANCISCO—Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay. And those were just the big spills the [...]
Tags: Environment, Fishing, pollution, San Francisco Bay, sewage
Jun
10
2008
This post, from The Ethicurean (who’d have thought x-posting from there would land on this blog?), pretty much sums up my closely-held belief that, when the virus takes us, we will have had it coming. Bluefin tuna finally extinct: “Well worth it,” say sushi fans. Note: It’s satire. But not by much.
Tags: Bluefin, Environment, Fishing, overfishing, satire, tuna
Apr
25
2007
Meanwhile, back in Puerto Rico, a comment I made to Marc stuck. We were talking about how the boys were steadily acting out more and more, and I mentioned that no one had asked them to come, no one had gotten their permission to drag them on airplanes, on boats, back and forth on docks, [...]
Tags: Fishing, Puerto Rico, Rowan, Talking Story