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Article: Life's not easy as a ... (fish).
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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... West Indian Manatee
With rich yuppies speeding their weekend toys around the place, I can't hear myself think these days. Speedboats used to be a problem only for the old manatees that retired to Florida. But manatees can be hit and-run victims in Venezuela and Surinam too. If it's not tourist boats, it's fishing ships. Or else we are caught by the junk careless cruisers leave behind -- fishing nets, hooks and trash. They might as well go back to hunting us down, like the Spanish used to in the sixteenth century! At least a harpoon is quick to kill, unlike a tangle of fishing lines. I ask you, what have we ever done to deserve this? Manatees are the only ...