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Jump, tuna, jump!

March 27, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
games, purse seine, tuna

Casual games are all the rage these days, what with Freerice racking up billions of grains. They even have some that make you happy and more confident. But what if you just want to pretend to be a tuna?...continued

Tuna can't even make it on Broadway

January 24, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
bluefintuna, Mamet, November, tuna

I happened to be doing some research on global tuna catches yesterday when I came across a review of the latest David Mamet play, November. The play centers on a hapless President (played by Nathan Lane) who is looking to...continued

Sushi, the political force for change

November 6, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing

Tags:
consumers, correlation, restaurant, sushi, Tsukiji, tuna

Andrew Sullivan's blog tipped me off to this wonderful analysis of the "steak vs. sushi" predictive model of political change. Ethan and the folks at Urbanspoon have tracked the correlation between the ratio of steak restaurants to sushi restaurants in...continued

Papa can you hear us?

August 13, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
Hemingway, marlin, shark, tuna

Ernest Hemingway was a man who liked big fish. Now, Paul Greenberg has gone through the trouble of doing the math to estimate just how many fish Papa Hemingway killed, and what that might mean in terms of today's dwindling...continued

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Kate Wing
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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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