Amazon fishermen fear impact of mega-dam

The life of fisherman Rosinaldo Pereira dos Santos, generally known as Tatá, may take a very different direction from the one that the governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and President Dilma Rousseff have promoted through their social welfare programs. Living on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon, he has always had abundant food.

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Write about fisheries issues for Mongabay

Over the next 18 months, Mongabay will commission scores of articles on fisheries from journalists across the globe, with a special focus on Indonesia, whose oceans span one eighth of the world’s circumference and whose new president seeks to strengthen the country’s identity as a “maritime nation.” These will examine a variety of aspects of the sector, many of which have not been closely considered.

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