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No way for fish
How to prevent Egypt’s enlargement of the Suez Canal making it easier for Red Sea creatures to colonise the Mediterranean
INVASIVE species are a menace. In the Mediterranean, poisonous pufferfish frequently turn up in fishermen’s nets. Summer swarms of stinging jellyfish close beaches as far west as Italy. And in the east, rabbitfish are eating most of the algae that native species rely on. Along with some 350 other non-indigenous species of marine life, all three migrants arrived from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal.
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