 New York teenagers Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss share
a love of sushi. Kate's father Mark worked with DNA bar coding and she was familiar
with the basics. One thing led to another and Kate and Louisa decided to do
some testing using DNA bar code technology to see if the fish
they ordered as sushi were actually what that were being served. The two girls
spent $300 buying sushi from four restaurants and ten grocery stores. They sent
the samples to a graduate student at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada,
where the Barcode of Life project began. When the results came in it turned
out that half of the restaurant samples and 60% of the grocery store samples
were mislabeled. Not surprisingly, the actually fish being served was
less expensive than what was ordered.
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August 27th - Ballot Measure 4 is failing by a large margin and is projected to lose.
August 26th - Alaska is home to the most productive wild salmon fishery in the United
States. Today Alaskans will vote on a ballot initiative that may
determine the health of that fishery. There's possibly as much as $300
billion worth of gold, copper, and molybdenum in the tundra
surrounding Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska. Mining those minerals would
create as many as 300 jobs. At the same time Bristol Bay is
Alaska's most valuable salmon fishery, with 31 million salmon worth
$108 million landed there in 2007. If Ballot Measure 4 passes today it
would prohibit any new large metal mines from polluting salmon streams or drinking-water
sources. Regardless of the outcome of today's vote there's likely to be
litigation for years to come.
Mining is a messy and toxic business. Digging up minerals in and of
itself releases heavy metals into streams. To make extraction of
valuable ore more efficient some mining operations use cyanide
solutions. Newer technologies are cleaner but are they clean enough?
Today Alaskans are making the call.
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