Read All About It! Read All About It! How Amazonians saved the “Terminator” of the fish world

January 8, 2021 - Less than a minute read

CNN recently ran a story about how Indigenous communities in the Amazon Basin are helping save the arapaima, a massive predator fish that also makes pretty tasty eating.

Quotable quote: “As fish go, the arapaima is pretty extraordinary. Found in the Amazon river basin, it is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world . . . Overfishing led to population decline, and in the 1990s steps were taken to prohibit arapaima fishing. However, illegal fishing continued, causing the species to disappear from parts of the Amazon. But thanks to two decades of work from conservationists and local communities, that’s no longer the case.”

Read the rest of the story by Tom Page here.

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