Industrial Fishing Threatens Chile's Fishermen

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Mark J. Davis

On the Sea
Fisherman Luis Torres scans the ocean surface in search of the empty Coca-Cola-bottle buoys that hold the crew's driftnet afloat, off the coast of Tumbes Peninsula in February, 2011. The modest fishing practices of the small-scale fishermen contrast the controversial methods employed by aggressive large-scale industrialized vessels.

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