Locals Pioneer Safer Fishing to Protect Seas Off Madagascar
Deep sea diving for the worm-like marine animals - a delicacy selling for hundreds of dollars in Asia - can lead to death, injury or paralysis, but many young men in the Indian Ocean island say they have no other means of survival, writes Nicky Milne for Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Madagascar:
No More Fish? We'll Farm Seaweed Instead
DW, 25 July 2017
The collapse of fisheries, decline of coral reefs and drought are all hitting Madagascar hard. But fishermen are coping with scarce and stressed resources in the Indian Ocean by… Read more »
A sea cucumber farmer tends her pen in Tampalove, southern Madagascar, February 19, 2018.