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标题: 中国市场需求驱使墨西哥渔民狂捞海参 [打印本页]

作者: choi    时间: 3-22-2013 08:44
标题: 中国市场需求驱使墨西哥渔民狂捞海参
中国市场需求驱使墨西哥渔民狂捞海参
Karla Zabludovsky, 中国市场需求驱使墨西哥渔民狂捞海参. 纽约时报中文网, Mar 22, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/world/2013/03/22/c22mexico/

, which is translated from

Karla Zabludovsky, Quest for Illegal Gain at the Sea Bottom Divides Fishing Communities. New York Times, Mar 20, 2013.

(a) two consecutive paragraphs:

"They plunge to depths of more than 50 feet with little more than a mask, their undergarments, a rickety hose for oxygen and a net, harvesting the glacial-paced animals like farmers picking strawberries.

"Often, they come up too quickly or suffer other diving injuries. In Celestún, an estimated 30 fishermen have died from decompression sickness while harvesting sea cucumbers since 2009, according to Álvaro Hernández, a researcher at the National Fisheries Institute.

(b) Note:
(i) Municipalities of Yucatán
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities_of_Yucat%C3%A1n
(Celestún: population 6,269; Dzilam de Bravo: 2,248; Progreso: 49,454)
(ii) sea cucumber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber
(iii) Quintana Roo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintana_Roo
(one of the 31 states in Mexico)
(Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide)





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