Massive Fishery Resurfaces in Amazon
By Bruce Bower
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An aerial view of part of Bolivia’s Amazon features a curious network of zigzag and straight lines cutting across floodplains. A close-up view reveals the lines to be the remains of an earthworks project that includes a fishery operated by native peoples of the Baures region before Spanish conquest, a new study finds.