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When we hear the term resource curse,” it usu­al­ly refers to the exploita­tion of coun­tries with rich stores of nat­ur­al resources like fos­sil fuels or wide­ly cov­et­ed met­als and min­er­als. Today, how­ev­er, we are talk­ing about pro­tein. Some of the most beau­ti­ful, remote parts on the plan­et also pro­duce some of its most unsus­tain­able pro­tein sources. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with envi­ron­men­tal jour­nal­ist Malavi­ka Vyawa­hare from the dis­tant Indi­an Ocean island of Réu­nion to dis­cuss the dev­as­tat­ing and cor­rupt prac­tices sur­round­ing the tuna fish­ing indus­try in that part of the world. We learn about the destruc­tive prac­tice using fish aggre­gat­ing devices (or FADs), how ships from wealthy Euro­pean nations like Spain and France are exploit­ing law-of-the-sea loop­holes, and what steps are being tak­en to pre­vent the region’s fish­ery from being com­plet­ed wiped out.