Catch Up(@CatchUpFeed):GATES MOSQUITO NETS WRECKED AFRICA'S FISHERIES Galante's account of an aid effort gone wrong. The Gates Foundation, he says, handed out millions of mosquito nets to fight malaria in the Zambezi Valley — a region whose delta is a nursery for the fish that feed millions. But the locals, who manage malaria their own way, used the fine-mesh nets to fish — scooping up the tiny baby fish that hold the whole population up. The result, in his telling: a collapsed fishery and new hunger, "all because they were trying to help.

2026.07.30 07:14

GATES MOSQUITO NETS WRECKED AFRICA'S FISHERIES Galante's account of an aid effort gone wrong. The Gates Foundation, he says, handed out millions of mosquito nets to fight malaria in the Zambezi Valley — a region whose delta is a nursery for the fish that feed millions. But the locals, who manage malaria their own way, used the fine-mesh nets to fish — scooping up the tiny baby fish that hold the whole population up. The result, in his telling: a collapsed fishery and new hunger, "all because they were trying to help.