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Corruption endangers world's shrinking fisheries
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FILE - Fishermen remove their catch from nets after returning to shore in Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 24, 2022. Corruption is undermining the management of some of the world’s most threatened fishing grounds, according to a review of criminal case files and media reports by the AP. At least 45 government officials have been accused of graft or extortion in the past two decades. - photo by AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Indonesia’s fisheries minister, Edhy Prabowo was tasked with protecting one of his country’s most precious resources: baby lobsters so tiny one can fit on the tip of a finger. The waters off the nation’s many islands and archipelagos had once teemed with lobster. But overfishing in recent decades decimated the crustacean’s population, so much so that fishermen turned to catching the hatchlings.