"Cocaine of the Seas": Inside the Workings of the Fish Bladder Trade
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[New Faces of Environmental Crime 2/4] From the Guiana Shield, acoupa swim bladders, a fish byproduct consumed as a delicacy in China, fetch exorbitant prices, fueled by illegal fishing that is devastating Guyanese waters. Georgetown, Guyana, report As every day, the fish market brings life to the working-class neighborhood of Meadow Bank in southern Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, which stretches between the wide Demerara River and the Atlan…
Not just sea bass and shellfish. The fate of cocaine shipments worth tens of thousands of euros was decided among the tables of a well-known restaurant in the heart of the Portuense neighborhood. A recent investigation by Rome's Anti-Mafia Directorate has shed light on a place that, for...
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