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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
by Juliet Eilperin
"But the best example of how we should treat sharks came from perhamps the unlikeliest conservation hero of them all, George W. Bush, in June 2006. For years environmentalists had been pressing the White House to fully protect the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Another remarkable series of Pacific atolls stretching fourteen hundred miles lng and a hundred miles across, the uninhabited chian boasts more than seven thousand marine species, at least a quarter of which are found nowhere else on earth. ... In the end Bush surprised even his own advisers by declaring the islands the Papahanaumokuawakea Marine National Monumnet, making it the largest marine protected are in the world, one that will remain untouched for generations."
"Just two weeks before leaving office on January 6, 2009, Bush made one ast offering to conservaton activists by creating three separate marine momuments in the Pacific that will protect some of the most pristine parts of the sea. ... it meant Bush had to defy Vice President Dick Cheney and the U.S. recreational fishing lobby. These groups, and the vice president, argued the president had no right to deny American citizens the right to thake their rod and reel to the farthest corners of U.S. territory. IN the end Bush decided that he did."
"I have wanted to visit the Northwest Hawaiian Islands and the northern Marianas for years: now I will likely never go. But that's beside the point -- the sharks will be there. They were here long before we arrived, they are unlike anything else on earth, and they, more than any other living thing, embody what is profound and beautiful about the sea."
"The House Democrat had criticized Bush on plenty of occasions, but this time he gave him full credit for performing what Case described as 'the most revolutionary act by any president, any administration, in terms of marine resources.'"
"Bush's decision would not usher in a new era of ecotourism; the Northwest Hawaiian Islands would never become a catchy, pituresque symbol for America like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. It would simply exist, undamaged, with all of its wondrous creatures swimming below the surface."
"Just two weeks before leaving office on January 6, 2009, Bush made one ast offering to conservaton activists by creating three separate marine momuments in the Pacific that will protect some of the most pristine parts of the sea. ... it meant Bush had to defy Vice President Dick Cheney and the U.S. recreational fishing lobby. These groups, and the vice president, argued the president had no right to deny American citizens the right to thake their rod and reel to the farthest corners of U.S. territory. IN the end Bush decided that he did."
"I have wanted to visit the Northwest Hawaiian Islands and the northern Marianas for years: now I will likely never go. But that's beside the point -- the sharks will be there. They were here long before we arrived, they are unlike anything else on earth, and they, more than any other living thing, embody what is profound and beautiful about the sea."
"The House Democrat had criticized Bush on plenty of occasions, but this time he gave him full credit for performing what Case described as 'the most revolutionary act by any president, any administration, in terms of marine resources.'"
"Bush's decision would not usher in a new era of ecotourism; the Northwest Hawaiian Islands would never become a catchy, pituresque symbol for America like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. It would simply exist, undamaged, with all of its wondrous creatures swimming below the surface."