Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Mongabay
Feb 6, 2018, 1:54 pm183 pts
Fishermen in the Dili district of Timor-Leste have found an extra perk of the insecticide added to their mosquito bed nets: the chemicals act as a Taser for shrimp. The bed nets are supposed to ward off malaria, but, with a few strong branches and some twine, it’s easy to refashion them into fishing nets that…

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