Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In

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another pet project from the ' I don't flush ' busybody left gone awry.

but obviously, DDT would be worse than this, because shut up.


"The nets go straight out of the bag into the sea"

Mosquito nets are now a billion-dollar industry, with hundreds of millions of insecticide-treated nets passed out in recent years, and many more on their way.

They arrive by the truckload in poor, waterside communities where people have been trying to scrape by with substandard fishing gear for as long as anyone can remember. All of a sudden, there are light, soft, surprisingly strong nets -- for free. Many people said it would be foolish not to use them for fishing.
Rachel Carson kills again.


"The nets go straight out of the bag into the sea" - Small Dead Animals

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/w...ic-overfishing.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0