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Saving our fish; The "new" Ptown; Under One Sky @ CCMNH;She shoots elephants, doesn't she?

TODAY's quote: "New England has a poor track record of managing their fisheries and their fishermen." - Eric Brazer

The north end of Chatham's South Island on Saturday afternoon. You can see the last cottage at the southern tip of Nauset Beach across the break through. Walter Brooks photo.

Finding Ways to Save an Ancient Industry
Fishing Cooperatives Could Help Fishermen While Replenishing Fish Stocks

         Watch the CBS video from Chatham

Two years after a study warned that overfishing could cause the world's seafood stocks to collapse by mid-century, a new report this week has some encouraging news. It found that five of the 10 major fishing areas in the world have taken steps to curb the problem. That includes New England, the focus of tonight's Weekend Journal: Finding ways to save an ancient industry - and their stock in trade.

By any measure, management of the fishing industry in New England over the last two decades has been a mess.

"All the paperwork, all the regulations// it's almost impossible not to break some kind of rule at one point or another," said Greg Walinski, a fisherman. "There's always something new coming down the pike."

Walinski has been fishing off Cape Cod for 30 years and he's never seen fish stocks of cod so depleted. He's never had to go so far out to sea in his small boat to catch them, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor.

"We're actually fishing 129 miles off shore," Walinski said. "A lot of people think we're nuts."

Since 1994, the number of boats in New England looking for groundfish, cod, haddock, pollock and flounder has plunged from 1,000 to 574. Over the same period, revenue has dropped from $116 million to $52 million and the supply of cod has been nearly destroyed...

Eric Brazer is part of a new solution that fishermen and conservationists think will save the fish and the industry. Operating from Chatham, he runs the only two New England fisherman's cooperatives, or sectors, as they are known... CBS News.
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Beirut, the Provincetown of the Middle East

          Oceana Beach party in Beirut

The pre-party began at 9 p.m. in Bertho Makso's room at the Bella Riva Suite Hotel, and by 9:05 p.m. the air was awash in cologne, hair spray, cigarette smoke and gossip about the night ahead. Would a certain 20-something from West Beirut be at the beach party? Had the two men from Cairo arrived yet? Was the cute D.J. from Bardo, a gay bar here, going to be spinning? And did anyone need condoms?

The last question came from Bertho, a 28-year-old Lebanese tour operator who was the host of the main event that Thursday night in June: the Bear Arabia Mega Party, at the Oceana resort about 30 minutes south of Beirut... NY Times/Travel.
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Under One Sky at Cape Cod Museum

See an Osprey chick hatch at Cape Cod Museum of Natutal History on Route 6-A in Brewster.

So cracking the books may not be high on your kids to-do list during the lazy days of summer. But if you want to steer them away from the TV and computer - you better have an enticing alternative!

We are hitting the road to a destination that's not only educational, but fun as well! It's a new exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, put together by our partners at the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

It's called Under One Sky and IFAW's Nancy Barr is here to tell us about it... NECN.
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She shoots elephants, doesn't she?

Isak Dinesen came "Out of Africa" and Liana Rasmussen is going into Africa.

Liana Rasmussen of Brewster at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. She'll be returning to Africa this fall on a Fulbright grant to photograph elephants. Photo courtesy of Liana Rasmussen

The Nauset graduate (class of 2003) was awarded a Fulbright grant, only the second ever given an ex-Nauset student, to spend 10 months camped on the shoulders of massive Mount Kilimanjaro (which is 60 miles long, 40 miles wide and 19,340 feet high) in northeast Tanzania photographing elephants, Massai villagers and researchers.

"I'm really excited. It's unbelievable. It's like it's happening to somebody else," said Rasmussen, who grew up in Brewster's Punkhorn Parklands. The Punkhorn is quiet and wild by Cape Cod standards but nothing like the remote savannas of Tanzania... Provincetown Banner.