PNG warns against fishing as metal contamination kills marine life in New Ireland

Over 1,250 residents affected through illness or contaminated food and water; families face food shortages and economic hardship as fishing bans prevent access to primary food and income sources.

Along the eastern coast of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, the sea has turned against the communities that have always lived by it. Since December 2025, poisonous metals detected in coastal waters near Kafkaf village and Larairu lagoon have killed thousands of marine organisms across fifteen species, sickened over a thousand residents, and forced fishing bans that have severed the primary source of food and income for families who had no other. It is a story as old as human settlement near water — the sudden betrayal of a resource taken as permanent — made urgent now by the pace of ecological c

PNG warns against fishing as metal contamination kills marine life in New Ireland

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