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Pirate hunters of the Po: how locals sick of poachers decided to fight back
As night falls in Italy’s largest delta, volunteers board tiny boats to track down the elusive fish mafia plundering the watersDuring the day Denny Covezzi works in a fishing equipment shop and Andrea Mocchi at at a factory. But at sunset they don heavy grey uniforms and set out on their small boat to patrol the river.They’re looking for anything suspicious: nets, traps, perhaps a van parked by the bank. They hear a rumble in the bushes, and Covezzi moves the boat closer to check: nothing. “It must have been an animal,” he says. Later, they notice something in the river – small homemade traps made of wire and plastic bottles. They haul the traps into the boat and break them apart. Continue reading...
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