Martinique issues fishing ban, blames pesticide
FORT-DE-FRANCE , Martinique (AP) — This French Caribbean island has banned fishing in all its rivers and some coastal areas for the next year after finding high levels of a controversial pesticide.
Recent studies by local health officials found more than double the accepted amount of kepone — also known as chlordecone — in 96 percent of samples taken at 40 locations across Martinique, a government stat...
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