Day: March 5, 2009

Reporters Notebook: Eating Good in Afghanistan

 

By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service

FORWARD OPERATING BASE GARDEZ, Afghanistan, March 2, 2009 – I\’ve eaten more lobster since I arrived here than I have in the past decade in the states.

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Army Spc. Kiana Mealey serves up lobster tails and crab legs at an Army-run dining facility nicknamed \”Olive Gardez,\” Feb. 21, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan. DoD photo by Fred W. Baker III

Don\’t tell my wife. She thinks I\’m suffering.
One of the few Army-run chow halls I have come across in my travels is located here. The base was too small when it opened to justify a contractor\’s service, so the Army took over the operations. 

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ASMFC Winter Meeting Summer Flounder

The states did as well as they could with the summer flounder recreational tables. Because we haven’t fixed the stock assessment for summer flounder, the quota is still ridiculously low. The peer review stock assessment states that the amount of spawning stock biomass does not appear to correlate to recruitment.

 When we had a spawning stock biomass less than ¼ of what we have now, with females no larger than 18 inches, we were getting higher recruitment than we are now. We now have a spawning stock biomass that is almost 5 times what it was in ’94. The majority of the females are much larger (over 27 inches), yet we are producing less recruitment.

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