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Rota-Letter February 16

ROTA LETTER FOR FEBRUARY 16, 2010

BLOOMINGTON ROTARY CLUB (www.bloomingtonrotary.org) - Founded 1918

Rotary 2009-2010 "The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands"

NEXT MEETING:

PLACE: Great Hall, First United Methodist Church

SUBJECT: "The Future of the Supreme Court," Beth Cate, I U University Counsel

FEBRUARY 16 MEETING

PHIL MEYER - SERVING AS ACTING CHAIR

GREETER: Glenda Murray

PLEDGE AND REFLECTION: Jim Bright

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS: Dawn Morley
Judy Holy, guest of Judy Schroeder; Charlotte Griffin, guest of Jim Griffin; Virginia Hall and Deborah Robinson, guests of Byron Bangert; Roger Meredith, guest of Nancy Krueger; and Jun Otsuka, our ambassadorial scholar

ANNOUNCEMENTS: TODAY WAS A DAY OF HAPPY DOLLARS
Ann Wrenn - Reported that 100 dozen roses were sold - THANKS TO THE COMMITTEE AND CHAIR, ANN WRENN
The Rotary District Meeting is in Bloomington in April - see Ron Jensen to help
The Rotary International Peace Project applications are due by July 1
Volunteers needed to host youth exchange student

PROGRAM: BYRON BANGERT introduced the speaker, Norm Holy, "The Deserted Ocean: A Social History of Depletion"

Norm Holy supports the Monterey Bay Aquarium "Seafood Watch." We need to know how to interact with the oceans. An example would be to buy cod from the Pacific and not from the Atlantic because of overfishing in the Atlantic to the point of extinction. Oceans have been overfished since 1900, especially the North Atlantic and coastal areas.
Some examples of the problems that exist are:
1. Herring are now gone from the North Atlantic. There used to be herring in groups 10 miles across until Scottish fishermen used systems to catch huge numbers of herring.
2. Cod have declined in weight from 30 pounds in 1600 to 8 pounds in 2009.
3. Bluefin tuna were fished for thousands of years but are now becoming rare and sometimes sell for $100,000.
4. Shrimp will reproduce in areas fished by United States fishermen but not in areas fished by certain other countries.
5. Orange Roughy live 140 years but are becoming extinct because they reproduce so slowly and are being overfished.
6. An area twice the size of the United States is trolled each year, which means that the fish at the deeper levels are being depleted, thereby eliminating the "stock" needed for future production.
7. Acid rain is killing the salmon industry in the Northeastern United States.
8. Midwest fertilizers are killing the fishing industry in the lower Mississippi River basin.

These are just some of the issues facing the fishing industry and the people who consume their products.

The MontereyBay Aquarium Project provides a list of the types of fish that can be consumed without harming the reproduction of certain fish types.

NEXT MEETING LOCATION: FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

REPORTER: Roger Fierst

Future meetings:

March 2 - David Fidler, James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law and director, IU Center on American and Global Security, “Violence and abuse in bringing up young athletes.” Frangipani Room.
March 9 - Robert Arnove, Distiguished Professor of Comparative Education, speaking about his book, Talent Abounds. Frangipani Room.
March 16 - Norman Crampton, partnership specialist, “Census 2010 - and why it is important to Bloomington.” Frangipani Room.
March 23 – Mayor Mark Kruzan. Great Hall, First United Methodist Church.
March 30 - Mayer Maloney, Herald Times publisher, “The Future of Newspapers.” Frangipani Room.