From there she became features editor, then executive editor and associate editor, before moving to The Daily Telegraph as Charles Moore's number two in 1995, making her mark as editor of the Saturday edition.The Sunday Telegraph's first female editor may be best summed up by a former colleague: "She's not a simple person, a cardboard cut-out, like so many editors She's a proper person."By Ciar Byrne. And shark populations, because of their basic biology, simply cannot stand it.Sharks are not like cod: they are top predators, living at the apex of the food chain, and they have very few natural enemies. So if a shark population is heavily reduced by fishing, it can take many decades - or even centuries - to rebuild itself."Biologically speaking, they're among the most vulnerable animals in the ocean," says Sarah Fowler, a leading British shark expert. This means that they do not need to overcompensate for large-scale mortality in their young by producing them in large numbers. A female cod may lay five million eggs, of which only a tiny fraction will survive; but a great white shark may only produce two pups, which will take a long time to grow to maturity. It is estimated, based on data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, that 100 million sharks are now being taken out of the ocean every year, either from fisheries that target them directly, or as "bycatch" - the accidental product of other fisheries.
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This has led to an explosion in demand for fins, so great that in some parts of the Pacific sharks have been fished out to supply it. Not the least unpleasant aspect of this trade is that, often, when sharks are caught their fins are cut off and the fish are thrown back into the water to die.Furthermore, as traditional fish stocks have plummeted, fishermen around the world have increasingly turned to sharks as a substitute. When China embraced capitalism in the late Eighties and early Nineties, it also embraced conspicuous consumption, and with it came a renewed and widespread taste for an old Chinese delicacy: shark's fin soup. In the last 20 years, the shark has shifted from predator to prey. The real challenge for the EU will not be how to entrench social welfare provisions, but how to meet the challenge of rising economic powers such as India and China.
This will mean spending Europe's capital on research and development - not on subsidising an unproductive agricultural sector.The danger in this country is primarily one of indulging in triumphalism. The French referendum vote indicated a deep attachment to extensive social protections. He may be politically strong in Europe at the moment, but Mr Blair still has to win the argument.This crisis has occurred at a time when the political plates beneath the EU are shifting, with elections looming in Germany and Mr Chirac's power ebbing away. Mr Blair should also be wary of assuming that his own views on Europe are in the ascendancy. Many valuable aspects of the European project are under serious threat, such as further enlargement and greater European co-operation on defence If these progressive measures stall, Britain loses out.
