Poison and profits: cyanide fishing in the Indo-Pacific. (includes related articles)

Environment | October 1, 1998| | Copyright

A board the Morning Sun in the grey Hong Kong dawn just before Christmas 1997, a stocky Chinese stevedore stood waist-deep in a tank with dozens of furiously thrashing napoleon wrasse, one of the most spectacular of Asia's coral reef fishes. One by one, he wrestled the fish, some weighing nearly 30 kg. into a scoop net and into the hands of his co-workers on the dock above. Weighed and sold right on the dock for as much as $90 per kilogram, the fish were hustled off in minutes into waiting trucks equipped with their own holding tanks. By evening, some of them would be sold to ...

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