Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Mongabay
May 15, 2024, 9:12 am195 pts
Most of Venezuela’s shrimp farms sit on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, a brackish lagoon covering an area larger than the island of Sicily in the country’s northwest. This region is also Venezuela’s oil-production hub, and throughout the years, hundreds of oil spills have polluted the waters near…

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