Islands of the missing: Micronesia's emptying atolls
By Mark Stratton, for CNN
Updated 0137 GMT (0937 HKT) January 18, 2016
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About two weeks ago, I posted about a fishing vessel that had entered the country (FSM) illegally and anchored in one of Yap State's Outer Island lagoons in (Ngulu). I posted a long memo about the ecological, ethical and legal problems that came up. The boat left before anything happened, and didn't fish. If they had fished illegally, we would ( Read more... )