![]() ![]() ![]() Now new video footage for National Geographic by reporters Sophie Tremblay and Willy Lowry captures some of the blasts in real time. The researchers counted more than 300 explosions in 30 days, from the Kenya-Tanzania border down to Mozambique. In December, Wildlife Watch wrote about blast fishing after researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society released a report documenting the extent of the illegal practice in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania. “I would say probably for the last five years it’s at least as bad or worse than it’s ever been,” said Jason Rubens, a marine conservationist with World Wildlife Fund’s Tanzania branch. In Africa, Tanzania is the only country where blast fishing still occurs on a large scale-and it’s happening at unprecedented rates. Called blast fishing or dynamite fishing, the practice goes on in nations from Lebanon and Malaysia to the Philippines, while some countries-Kenya and Mozambique, for instance-have managed to stamp it out. That’s all it takes for a fisherman to kill hundreds of fish and transform thriving coral reefs into rubble in a matter of seconds.Īround the world, fishermen are using explosives, often with dynamite, to maximize their catch. ![]()
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