Oil Spill Research Efforts
Words: 492 Pages: 2 3785Spring should have been a good time for fishing in the network of dark, tree-lined lakes around this small Kukama Indian village in the northern Peruvian Amazon. Seasonal floodwaters that draw river fish into the lakes to spawn have traditionally meant a bonanza for fishermen here. But this year was different. "There are no fish in the lakes," says village President Galo Vasquez, a small, softspoken man with a perpetually worried expression. "We have to go farther upriver, sometimes a […]