How Chile's Environment Policy Is Good for Fish, and for Business
How Chile's Environment Policy Is Good for Fish, and for Business
By
Emily Petsko
The country's science-based approach shows fishing can be environmentally sustainable.
This article is adapted from AQ's latest issue on the politics of water in Latin America
About 400 miles from shore, a small fishing community in Chile’s Juan Fernández Archipelago makes its living from a species unique to the islands: the Juan Fernández spiny rock lobster. The area is a national park, but in the 2000s, marine life was showing signs of stress. Catches started to dwindle, threatening the community’s livelihood.
Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing practice in...
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