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"textContent": "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 […]\n\nThe post Instead of Arresting Indigenous Fishermen, Australia Begins to Pay Them to Control Sea Urchin Plague appeared first on Good News Network.",
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