November 15, 2004
11/15 - Catch a fish, kill a gazelle: The fisheries/bush meat link in Africa
Dr Justin Brashares and colleagues tell Science magazine that consumption of bushmeat in Ghana rises whenever the supply of fish in the country falls. The region is blighted by overfishing, much of it by EU-subsidised trawlers.
Did they really think stealing all the African's fish would have no
affect on local populations?
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