Fish trade's murky waters cloud double murder in Amazon

Atalaia Do Norte, Brazil (AFP) June 22, 2022

The pirarucu is one impressive fish: a huge, thrashing Amazonian monster with red-and-black scales the size of serving spoons. Still, it's just a fish. How is it possible it could have gotten British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira murdered? Police say Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, were shot dead on June 5 returning from a research trip in Brazil's