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BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA is experiencing a rash of mould-related lawsuits. Recent cases have included a US$14 million judgment in Florida against a contractor for alleged toxic mould-related construction defects at a courthouse and a US$65 million lawsuit against a New York community college by one of its former employees for injuries and damages allegedly caused by mould exposure.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA’S Devon Energy Corp. has announced that it will buy Ocean Energy Corp. for US$3.5 billion in stock, to create the largest America-based independent oil and gas production company. Oklahoma-based Devon, which took over Anderson Exploration of Calgary in 2001 for a hefty US$4.6 billion and Northstar Energy, also of Calgary, in 1998, will assume US$1.8 billion of Houston-based Ocean’s debt.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN President George W Bush has still not let it be known how his administration will fund a seminal sea safety bill that recently came into law. Earlier this month (February), Bush unveiled his 2004 budget request and, oddly, offered no money for the provisions of The Maritime Security Act of 2002, which requires

detailed port security plans, more screening of cargo, upgraded navigational equipment and an increase in off-shore surveillance to 12 miles from three,.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY PHILIP FINE

COCA-COLA is continuing the global rollout of its energy drink Burn, introducing the product in Ukraine. The drink has been targeted to clubbers, athletes and even dozy workers but the main distribution point in Ukraine is the local discos.…

BY PHILIP FINE

Skyrocketing claims and a proposed new bill trying to make its way to the

US senate have put the issue of mould on the minds of American insurance

companies.

Several high-dollar claims have been going through

the US courts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GROCERY Manufacturers of America group has applauded a new trade agreement between the United States and Chile. The GMA says the pact will spur freer trade of processed food to south America, and singles out the agreement’s proposed reductions in tariffs for such items as breakfast cereals, pasta and french fries.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
FRAUD is fraud, jurists might say. And although jurisprudence generally has a universal flavour and there are frauds that are committed the world over, it would be a travesty of the truth to say that crimes involving deception uniform by nature.…

BY MARK ROWE
A SONG or customs passed down through generations by an aboriginal tribe can reveal as much about that society as a physical artefact such as their traditional clothing or funerary urns. But while these last two items can be preserved for posterity easily enough, the challenge to retain more intangible objects such as a musical story is far greater.…