Ocean Sentry
(From ticotimes.net) – Fishermen in Nicaragua”s northern Pacific waters use as many as 40,000 makeshift bombs a week in the illegal blast fishing industry, with disastrous environmental effects, according to Capt. Juan Juárez of the Nicaraguan Navy. Juárez told The Nica Times that blast fishing, in which fishermen drop homemade bombs into the sea in order to kill fish, is a practice still widely used in Nicaragua”s Pacific by small-scale fishermen.
Naval forces have seized about 300 bombs so far this year while patrolling Pacific waters, he said.
(By Blake Schmidt)
