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Peru’s vanishing fish

CHIMBOTE, Peru — This northern port reeks of rotten fish year-round, but when anchoveta season begins in late November, its long row of factories belch oily columns of nauseating smoke that impregnate everything within miles. “That’s the smell of money,” a smiling cabbie tells visitors he sees wrinkling their noses as they approach the 27 […]

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