
RICHARD HOWARD FOR TIME
NIAZ DORRY OCTOBER 5, 1998
To Oppose Overfishing, a Protester Tries Persuasion
BY JOHN SKOW ST. LOUIS
On an unexpectedly cool Saturday morning in August, the
Greenpeace Motorbus Terrapin is docked across six lanes of city
highway from a farmers' market in St. Louis, Mo. The bus p.a.
system blasts rock music, alternating with a short rap against
factory fishing trawlers. A woman approaches, says that she
agrees the huge ships with huge nets exhaust ocean fisheries and
that she would sign a Greenpeace petition against them, except
the rock music is noise pollution, so she won't. Somebody turns
off the music.
Niaz Dorry rolls her eyes, grins and says she had forgotten how
hard collecting signatures can be. She is a big, wide, powerful
woman with an amiable, unfooled expression and a
finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped
organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that
left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September
finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's
bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch.
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HEROES FOR THE PLANET
heroes gallery
Sylvia Earle
Niaz Dorry
Richard Wheeler
Guy and Neca Marcovaldi
Princess Basma
Hirofumi Yamashita
Legacy: Remembering Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Peter Raven
William McDonough
Russell Mittermeier
Robert F. Kennedy and John Cronin
Yvon Chouinard
Cynthia Moss
OCEAN WEB RESOURCES
International Maritime Organization
United Nation's agency working to improve maritime safety and prevent
pollution from ships
American Oceans Campaign
Committed to protecting and preserving coastal waters, estuaries, bays,
wetlands, and deep oceans
SeaWeb
Public education program designed to raise awareness of the ocean and
the life within it
Ocean Views
BOATS GALORE
After 1970 the capacity of the world's fishing fleet rose more
than 400 percent
VIBRANT
For every 1 lb. of shrimp taken in the wild, at least 5 lbs. of other species, the "by-catch," are discarded
BETTER IDEA
The output of aquaculture operations, also known as fish farms, has gone up more than threefold since 1984
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TIME/Yahoo! Chat
Read the transcript of our online chat with Niaz Dorry, October 1.
Books on Oceans and the environment @barnesandnoble.com
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