Then, despite the best intentions, things began to go wrong. Both fish and their habitat suffered.
“They’ve begun to have access to things like poison. Even things just like household bleach can be used as poison in the oceans to kill all the fish so they float to the surface for harvesting,” he says.
Malagasy fisherman
He adds, “They’ve started to receive things like mosquito nets to obviously address very important health issues for the community. But those mosquito nets, if they’re used as fishing nets, are so, so fine that they lift all of the fish larvae and juvenile fish, as well as the larger fish people are trying to catch. So (they) stop those larvae from growing into future fish for people to catch.”
Reefs were also destroyed when the Vezo people used mining picks to break the coral apart looking for octopus. Previously, they might have used sticks to probe holes in the reef. In the short term, the mining pick method appears more productive, but it has long-term consequences as the home of marine life is shattered.
The senior vice president of RARE says if the local populations are empowered to care for the oceans and their food supply, they will see the benefits of using sustainable fishing methods.
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