Industrial Fishing Threatens Chile's Fishermen

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Mark J. Davis

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A statue of Saint Peter, fisherman and possessor of the keys to the kingdom, looks over the sea in Caleta Lo Rojo, 2008. A 2006 article in the journal Science projected that if fishing continues at present rate we will experience a global collapse of the world's fisheries by the year 2048. Photographer Mark J. Davis won the 2010 Photocrati Fund emerging photographer’s grant for his work on Chile's struggling local fisherman.

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