About cars/trucks, I have a Plymouth neon we drive
every where and a full sized van for family trips and
when the larger vehicle is needed. So I have a car
that gets 34 MPG and a van that gets 9 MPG. I do hope
to replace that van with a full sized SUV in the near
future as the newer ones get alot better gas mileage.
Later, John
--- dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu wrote:
> Thanks for the thoughts, Moon. I don't eat caviar,
> or any commercially
> caught fish, except two species from Alaska where
> the fisheries for
> those two are reported by most conservation agencies
> and advocacy
> groups as being sustainably managed. I do eat farm
> raised catfish from
> the Langston University Aquaculture Program when
> those fish are offered
> for sale to the public. The program promotes
> sustainable farming. I
> also eat, about one time a year, lm or sm bass that
> I catch on my once
> yearly trip to an Ozark stream strictly for R and R
> and to remember old
> times when I fished for fun.
>
> BTW, do most of you guys realize that data in recent
> years suggest that
> the minimum size requirements for both commercial
> and sports harvest
> seem to be promoting smaller sized populations and
> smaller size-in-
> maturity among targeted species?
>
> Dave Mc
>
> David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
> Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
> Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
> telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
> home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
>
> "Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there
> yet?"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Moontanman-in-aol.com
> Date: Friday, January 6, 2006 1:02 am
> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Car talk banned? Now eco
> rantings
> > In a message dated 1/6/2006 12:30:18 AM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > mh4mac-in-comcast.net writes:
> >
> > So just be careful when you generalize. I
> suspect the NANFA
> > >> membership is a
> > > rather varied group and are not carbon copy
> clones of one another.
> >
> >
> >
> > WHAT! you mean all you guys don't have long white
> hair and live in
> > your
> > parents basements surrounded by fish and still
> trying to get up
> > the nerve to call
> > a girl? Tell me it's not true! Actually I am just
> happy to have
> > people to
> > talk to who occasionally take my quasi-sane
> ravings about fish
> > seriously. I've
> > made some really good friends on this list, I know
> that might
> > sound
> > superficial since I haven't even met most of you
> but bonds can
> > form among diverse
> > people who share a common interest. sometimes we
> disagree, most
> > of the time it's
> > civilized and even those who I have had less than
> civil words
> > with I still
> > feel a bond of respect for their passion about
> the same thing I
> > feel passion
> > about. OK I'll stop, I've a couple of beers and I
> get all wordy
> > when I type
> > while impaired. But I really didn't even notice
> the car thing but
> > can we get some
> > support for not eating caviar? I seriously think
> eating the eggs
> > of rare and
> > or endangered fish as a snack is somewhat
> barbaric. Even my
> > grandfather who
> > had less than a 6th grade education and spent his
> life living off
> > the land
> > would throw back gravid female fish when he
> caught them. He often
> > came up with
> > very thoughtful ecology minded ideas-in-a time
> when very few
> > people gave such
> > things a second thought. I do know that his
> respect for the
> > natural world is
> > what inspired the same in me.
> >
> > Michael
> >
>
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