the Brazil river where illegal fishing threatens lives

the Brazil river where illegal fishing threatens lives

Source: theguardian

6/3/2023

Credit: Mamiraua Institute of Sustainabl/AFP/Getty Images

Poaching of endangered species flourishes despite widespread outcry – but sustainable fishing could end the violence engulfing the trade

José Maria Batista Damasceno weeps as he describes his decades dodging death in the Brazilian Amazon.

There was the time, along the Japurá River, that an illegal fisherman threatened to butcher him if he didn’t get out of town. “You’d better leave or we’ll harpoon you,” Damasceno remembers being told.

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