Peru ponders: whose fish are they anyway?
A bid to protect part of the Pacific raises legal conundrums
AT 7.30AM ONE February morning last year, the great Bay of Paracas shimmered in the light from the desert. Storms of seabirds—small Inca terns and petrels, large cormorants and Peruvian boobies—swirled over the shore, retreating like a mirage on approach. Flamingos flew javelin-straight. Pelicans bobbed on the water, so ungainly that they seem designed by a committee until they took flight, elegantly skimming the waves.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Whose fish are they anyway?”
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