INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP – DEVASTATED FISHERY RESTORED BY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAN-MADE ecological disaster that almost destroyed a fishing industry is now being reversed. The northern Aral Sea - once a shallow saline remnant - is now growing again, boosting fish production. Excess irrigation shrank central Asia's Aral Sea by 70% from 1960 to 2004, and its level dropped about 20 metres, splitting it in two in 1990: a small Northern Aral Sea entirely within Kazakhstan and a large Southern Aral Sea, shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The result was the devastation of the sea's fishing sectors through increased salinity. ...
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