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For Aquariums, the Small Fry Swept North Become a Big Catch

Summary
From July to October, the Gulf Stream carries young tropical young fish known as orphans, strays, expatriates. Catching the fish up north is cheaper and less disruptive to ocean because they are unlikely to survive the winter. There’s an abundance of fish at North because of climate change.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/science/05fish.html?_r=1

Opinion
I think that it’s the right decision for Biologists to catch fish instead of normal fishing people because Biologist take in consideration that they’ve got to conserve the ecosystem unlike fishing people that do exactly the opposite. But I still do think that taking fish from the sea into an aquarium is not a quite a good idea even if they try to conserve the population of fish. The best thing to do is to make a breeding center for all kind of fish so then we wouldn’t have to mess with nature. The inconvenience of this is that the production of this breeding center wouldn’t be enough for the world aquarium population. But for me it’s a possible idea, one I would like to consider if one day I have the chance to do all of this stuff.


One-Third of U.S. Bird Species Endangered, Survey Finds

Summary
Habitat destruction, pollution and other problems have left nearly a third of the nation’s 800 bird species endangered, threatened or in serious decline. The report said that the population of grassland birds had declined by 40 percent and birds in arid lands by 30 percent. It estimated that 39 percent of bird species that depend on American coastal waters were in decline.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/science/earth/20bird.html

Opinion
As the news says, the ever growing human population is destroying and killing other populations, but there’s a reason for our success in nature, our intelligence and our capability of doing things has helped us to turn nature in our favor. If we think about it, we’re animals; the only difference is that we’re rational animals… But we do anything that any other species of animal would do if they had the biological efficiency that we have. It’s not really our fault; we’re just doing what any animal would do in their position, live!
But we’ve gone a bit too far because now what we are doing is harming the balance of life, so we are harming our planet, our own home… We are a plague, who will stop this plague?

F.D.A. Says Food from Cloned Animals Is Safe

Summary
Food from cloned animals and their progeny is safe to eat, clearing the way for milk and meat derived from genetic copies of prized dairy cows. Animal breeding takes time, so even with Tuesday’s actions; it is likely to be several years before products from the offspring of clones are at the grocery store in appreciable quantity.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/business/16clone.html
Opinions
I do think that things are going to far… I personally think that things are going too far because now we’re actually messing with nature. Nature is the mother of all living species because she’s the one that chooses which species survive and what species don’t. It’s not our paper to mess genetically with animals for our benefit. I think that all of this is too much and I don’t think that this clone process is actually necessary. I disapprove all these new ways to get food. Would you like to be cloned for you to be eaten? Don’t think so!