Roundup 10/30: Limits and Plenty Edition

An international commission is meeting until 6 November to discuss Antarctic fisheries policy; a consortium of conservationists, meanwhile, called this week for more research and monitoring of Antarctic krill populations, which are under pressure from fishing. They also want separate catch limits for coastal and pelagic areas, so that fishing vessels don't out compete seals and penguins.

New York, California, and 13 other states have sued Amgen over alleged kickbacks related to sales of Amgen's anemia drug, Aranesp. 

The Ocean Observatories Initiative will hold the first in a series of community workshops for scientists 11–12 November in Baltimore, Maryland.

An energy efficiency nut he sure is, that Secretary of Energy.

The main glitch from an otherwise solid Ares launch test the other day was the parachute.

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