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Date Posted: 20:53:16 04/08/02 Mon
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Those poor people of Lihir PNG

The locals are reaping a bitter harvest from a Rio Tinto venture.

In the main restaurant on Papua New Guinea's Lihir island, surrounded by one of the world's richest marine environments, the mussels on the menu are from Thailand and the fish is from the relatively distant PNG port of Rabaul.

Regina Asiad, the women's representative on Lihir's village planning committee, says that a few years ago dugout canoes "overflowing" with fish arrived daily at Lihir's wharf.

"Now you might get five or six fish in a boat or nothing. Strange things happen that we never encountered before. We find dead fish, and sometimes fish we catch tastes strange, so people won't eat it. A lot of pigs died after eating stuff on the beach. We wonder about that mine."

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