FISH!

Here's a little bright news from the Russian Far East: all six species of Pacific salmon are thriving on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the provincial government is trying to create a nature preserve twice the size of Yellowstone to keep it that way. Fingers crossed. It's not like Russia has a stellar environmental record, but then, neither does the U.S..

It always amazes me when politicians show a little vision. With a heaping side of self-interest of course: keeping the salmon population means a viable fishing industry, assuming that consumers know that wild salmon is soooooo much better than that farmed crap they sell in most supermarkets--the salmon that live in big pens off the coast of Chile and elsewhere, wallowing in their own filth and disease. Not that I'm biased or anything.