In the French Antilles, Fisheries Affected by Chlordecone Pollution

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From 1972 to 1993, this ultra-toxic pesticide was used in banana groves in Guadeloupe and Martinique.

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Pointe-à-Pitre - Near the Guadeloupe coasts, abandoned traps reflect the total or partial prohibition of fishing due to persistent chlordecone pollution, which was used in agriculture for more than 20 years in the 1970s-90s.

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Pointe-à-Pitre, 26 May 2025 (AFP) – A few hundred meters from the coast of Guadeloupe, two zodiacs of maritime affairs are trying to raise traps when they are abandoned. In the West Indies, chlordecone pollution, a pesticide used for more than twenty years, has limited or even prohibited fishing in large areas. "We are taking up these traps that were [...]