Tag: blast fishing

• Saturday, May 18th 2013 - 00:56 UTC

  Chile investigates alleged case of blast-fishing close to a major Humboldt rookery

  

  The bodies of sea lions, cormorants and penguins were discovered on Sunday littering a seven mile stretch of beach in Punta de Choros, northern Chile, is the proximity of the Humboldt Penguin Nature Reserve. Fisheries officials and police are investigating since there are serious suspicions that the deaths were caused by local fishermen using explosives to increase catches.