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/ 27 November 2007

Japan in culinary offensive to stop spread of US fish

The keepers of Japan’s biggest lake have called on the public to join in one final push to eat the bluegill fish into extinction before it does the same to threatened native species. The bluegill’s destruction of indigenous freshwater fish, almost 50 years after it was touted as a vital source of protein for an undernourished population, is being treated as an ecological emergency.