Troubled Waters of the Gulf of Mexico

Troubled Waters: The Future of Global Fisheries

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the vast blue expanse of ocean—the last frontier—is not as inexhaustible as it once seemed. While we have yet to fully explore the reaches of the sea, technology has granted humans the ability to harvest its wealth. We can now fi sh anywhere, at any depth, for any species. Like the American frontier range’s bison and wolf populations brought to the brin...

Oil on troubled waters.

either by changing the ice sheet's basal thermal regime or by introducing water into the path of the ice stream through periodic drainage events. If this proves to be the case, it would substantially change our understanding of the effect of subglacial lakes on ice-sheet stability. It indicates that basal hydrology needs to be accounted for in numerical models of ice-sheet motion because it has...

A bridge over troubled waters.

Lung transplantation (LTx) remains the only therapeutic strategy for the treatment of end-stage respiratory failure in selected patients [1,2]. However, clinical scenario of LTx is rapidly changing. Two aspects still characterize LTx in comparison with the transplant of other solid organs. First, only a limited number of lung grafts is considered suitable for transplant within the donors’ pool....

Aquaculture Navigates Through Troubled Waters

Troubled fishing in Pacific waters

The Pacific island countries persist with tuna fishing policies that are significantly inferior to what appear to be the economically and environmentally sensible courses to follow. Economists have been offering advice over a fairly long period about better policy options without having any discernable favourable impact. This lack of success might be due, as Gordon Tullock once said, to the fac...