About the cover
February 2008 Volume 1 No 2
A significant fraction of the anthropogenic nitrogen input into the coastal oceans from fertilizers is transferred back to land by commercial fisheries. This fraction has decreased over the past few decades, because fertiliser loads have increased at a faster rate than harvests from fisheries. The photo was taken on the beach at St Louis in Senegal where women were drying and smoking fish. (Image credit: Kieran Kelleher/Marine Photobank.)
Cover design by Karen Moore
