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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
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O C E A N  H E R O E S
Sylvia Earle
Niaz Dorry
Richard Wheeler
Guy and Neca Marcovaldi
Princess Basma
Hirofumi Yamashita

Legacy: Remembering Jacques-Yves Cousteau


E D U C A T O R S  
Peter Raven

D E S I G N   H E R O E S
William McDonough

F O R E S T  H E R O E S
Russell Mittermeier

F R E S H  W A T E R
Robert F. Kennedy and John Cronin

B U S I N E S S
Yvon Chouinard


W I L D L I F E
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

TIME/Yahoo! Chat
Read the transcript of our online chat with Niaz Dorry, October 1.


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