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today.Nguyen Van Bay, 34, climbed into a 2-metre-high vat thatholds fish sauce to clean it out on Monday, but found that ithad not been properly emptied of fermented fish used tomake the pungent sauce.Within minutes, Bay was overcome by the fumes of rottingfish and salt and fainted.At least four fellow workers at the Ngoc Thach fish saucefactory climbed in to try to rescue him, but they too fainted,said Nguyen Trung Toan, a local official in Binh Thuanprovince, 100 kilometres east of Ho Chi Minh City.Co-workers using face masks finally pulled the five peopleout of the vat and rushed them to hospital, but Bay could notbe revived, Toan said.International Wildlife MagazineNational Wildlife Federation web page:Bright Hopes For Chile?By Allen A. BoraikoTalcahuano: Busy WaterFrancisca Rodriguez, 42, mother of three, and a self-professed "water rat," lives in Talcahuano.The busiest Chilean port by volume, it sprawls between the bays of San Vicente andConcepción. They're the dirtiest in Chile, flanked by docks, rail lines, oil-storage farms,petrochemical refineries and fish-meal plants. The nation's largest steel mill lies on one bay anda major naval lies base on the other.Rodriguez's waterfront shanty perches on the edge of a narrow, coal-black lagoon. In herchildhood, this was a clear, free-flowing channel and her favorite swimming place. Today afish-meal factory emits an all-pervading reek from the far bank.Still, the obnoxious plant provides Rodriguez a living. Not inside, in a white smock and up toher elbows in sardines, but outside, in a pollution-stained yellow dory: She ferries her neighborsto and from work across the lagoon. One-way fare is the equivalent of 8 cents."I was born here," Rodriguez tells me, chunking an anchor into the pebbly bank and leapingashore at her front door. "So was my mother and her mother. Grandma died at age 90, and evenher grandmother was born here."Pushing open her door, Rodriguez apologizes for the cramped quarters. Yet the shanty feelscozy, with a tiny wood-burning stove blazing in one corner. Nature scenes from calendars and204
ed and pink plastic roses are everywhere. "It pains me," she says, "to look out the window andsee everything half-dead."Indeed, some things outside are totally dead. A sea lion for one, lassoed by neighborhood boyswho dragged it from the water to eat it. But they abandoned the carcass when a policemanshowed up, too late to rescue the officially protected species.The neighborhood council asked people not to throw garbage into the water, but there arerenegades. What they toss out on the ebb largely floats back six hours later, on the high tide.There's a worn shoe, a toothless comb, tin cans, disposable razors, shreds of fish net, Styrofoamcups. No glass soft-drink bottles, though--they're redeemable at stores for cash.Other residues also go into the drink: human waste illegally dumped by families too poor toafford a sewer connection, and viscera legally dispersed through long outfall pipes from thefish-meal plant. Not surprisingly, Talcahuano and its twin bays have been declared emergencyzones. A model cleanup plan, the first of its kind in Chile, is being crafted by central, regionaland city government authorities."I just hope things keep improving," Rodriguez says, "more than anything because you alwayswant the best possible future for your kids, don't you?"Social Standard [UK] June 2005 Film Review of Darwin’s Nightmare: ‘Indictment of GlobalCapitalism’ by Tristan MillerWith the decline of indigenous fish stocks and the population explosion of the Nile perch, manyof the millions of Africans who live and work around Lake Victoria have been displaced fromtheir traditional farming and fishing occupations. Out of economic necessity, they have beenforced to accept positions as wage-labourers for large-scale Nile perch fisheries and packingplants. Meanwhile, processing of the invasive perch, whose flesh is much oilier than those ofnative species, has led to an increase in demand for firewood to dry the meat. This has resultedin widespread deforestation and the pollution of Lake Victoria from runoff. This sorry state ofaffairs is chillingly documented in Darwin's Nightmare, which premiered at the 2004 TorontoFilm Festival and is now gradually seeing wide release across Europe. Director Hubert Sauperpresents us with contrasting images to reinforce the human devastation of the fishingcommunities in and around the Tanzanian city of Mwanza. We are taken inside the boomingfish processing factories, where 500 tons of Nile perch are filleted and packed for export toEurope every day; meanwhile, two million Tanzanians find themselves gripped by a deadlyfamine. We see fishermen and prostitutes wasting away from AIDS; the local Christian clergy,steadfast in their religious superstitions on sex, refuse to advocate the use of condoms. Ananimatronic fish in a fat factory owner's office croons out "Don't Worry Be Happy'' while thestarving street-children outside come to blows over the apportionment of a meagre can of rice.Those who failed to snatch a handful assuage their hunger by melting down and inhaling theplastic material the factory uses to package its fish. Perhaps the most memorable and horrificscene in the movie comes after [filmmaker] Sauper interviews a factory official on a balconyoverlooking the premises. The camera pans across the grounds and focusses on a rickety truckbeing loaded up with fish offal. "Don't film that truck,'' barks the official. Some days later,though, Sauper secretly follows the truck to a dirty, stinking landfill where its foul cargo isdumped. The air is thick with the ammonia of decaying fish, and hordes of maggots feast uponthe rotting carcasses. A group of mud-caked women, crippled and sick from years of breathingthe noxious fumes, crowd around the pile of offal the truck has left behind and get to work.205
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whole concept of MSY; the problem o
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This project adopted an open protoc
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public figures who had seen RD Tuna
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suddenly costs the government more
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problems of the poor.’ He pledges
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scores of landowner groups who regi
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areas…There were promises of new
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might say today. This is certainly
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During the 1950’s over 860,000 co
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of reorientation of focus and direc
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title, sensu the Windjammer, is ‘
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Blue Water Tuna is a private PNG co
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meters out from its original size,
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The Offshore Masters is going to be
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Water Resources Act (Chapter No. 20
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people were made to believe that ne
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In general, I feel SSTC has present
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fisheries myself at one stage and f
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never cleaned fish before, that was
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Philomena Naura: “The smell aroun
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There is no covering to the oxidizi
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duties on one of the ships offloadi
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on the side of the fishing vessel.
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The fishery observer told us that i
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Speaking of prostitution on fishing
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and if any major disruptions occur
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Most of us here are very unfortunat
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The husband of the woman employed a
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Thomas Nigints was one of the few p
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Did SST place FADs in the sea?The c
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doing it, it’s going to be over o
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Landowners are also deeply disturbe
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places or settlement where they are
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in the revenue, so when the opportu
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And as soon as they’d finished th
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There is no legal case as yet with
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owns the land legally and therefore
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There is still need to recruit more
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In regard to the production, by the
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The company invited interested peop
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strategy is very well used by forei
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employees and those whose work requ
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The present Human Resource Manager
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working gear? In my section I wear
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working for a whole first week with
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Serah from Manam island, married wi
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