Natural History Wanderings

Good News Network  reported

Native coastal Australians are experiencing a dramatic reversal of fortunes—from facing jail time over fishing to being trained to lead a whole new fishing industry.

Documented in a feature piece at Australia’s ABC News, young people from the Walbunja indigenous community are reconnecting to traditional fishing practices in order to suppress a very yummy plague of long-spined sea urchins devasting southern Australia’s reefs, seagrass, and kelp forests.

Read more Instead of Arresting Indigenous Fishermen, Australia Begins to Pay Them to Control Sea Urchin Plague