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Developing Liberia's Aquatic Biomass Amid Incessant Iron Ore Mining
By Syrulwa Somah, PhD

Published:  19 July, 2007

Liberia is no doubt a very rich country in terms of natural resources. It has huge deposits of gold, diamond, iron ore, and numerous rivers, creeks, and streams good for commercial fishing. It has an aquatic biomass that contains various species of crabs, turtles, fishes, alligators, shrimps, frogs, and plants. Yet Liberia has consistently focused many efforts on iron ore mining and raw timber exports than on developing its aquatic biomass for producing fish products, which are as economically profitable as iron ore and timber exports, but less harmful to the environment. Nonetheless, Liberia currently holds the dubious distinction as the world's 11th largest iron ore producing country due to huge deposits of iron and aluminum, two of world's most useful metallic elements, when the country has no steel processing plants and remains one of the poorest nations in the world in terms of living standards, education and development. Perhaps, it is now time for Liberia to begin to deemphasize iron ore mining and concentrate more efforts on developing its aquatic biomass for commercial fishing, canned fish products, and other commercial activities before the aquatic biomass is destroyed by the current waves of incessant and unregulated iron ore mining activities in the country.

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