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 Stories About: Mozambique AND fishing AND oceans
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Subsidies and the Africa problem
Billions of taxpayer dollars are helping destroy African waters |
Andrew Sharpless |
16 Dec 2007 |
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| After exhausting commercial seafood stocks off their own shores decades ago, wealthy nations turned their bows toward the pristine populations off the coast of Africa. In the 1990s, the European Union took more than a million pounds of fish out of African waters annually; the former Soviet states took about 2.5 million pounds. The result has been predictable: a steep decline in biomass along the African coast. Meanwhile, African nations took a sliver of th ... |
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| Topics: fishing, Mozambique, oceans (all these topics) |
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