OPINION: We Must Protect Our Oceans' Golden Geese
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Politics can make for awkward dinner conversation, particularly among strangers who are just acquainting, but 19 years ago at a restaurant in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, Jean-Michel Cousteau embraced the subject with passion.
For good reason: Though a California resident, the son of the late Jacques-Yves Cousteau was the BVI environmental advocate and had recently dined at the White House, where he persuaded President George W. Bush to set aside 140,000 square miles of tropical Pacific Ocean as critical marine sanctuary while phasing out commercial fishing over several years...
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