Cambodia’s giant Tonle Sap Lake faces crisis due to lack of back flow

[geovalin]

As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for centuries. More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world’s largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.

 

Tonle Sap was once renowned for its abundance of fish and wildlife – 43-year-old Leng Vann recalls catching hundreds of kilos a day in his nets. His house, which floats on the lake, sits five metres (16 feet) lower than it should in mid-October, at the end of the rainy season, and when he draws his net from the waters, it is empty.

 

“We fishermen survive by water and fish. When there is no water and fish, what else can we hope for?” said Leng Vann. “Our future is dark,” he said, as he rowed his boat back to his modest home.

 

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[PETERTHEEATER]

6 hours ago, geovalin said:

e – 43-year-old Leng Vann recalls catching hundreds of kilos a day in his nets

This implies that he alone in a single boat would catch a minimum of 200 kg every day. Pull the other one its got bells on it!

Edited December 28, 2020 by PETERTHEEATER

[bradiston]

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

This implies that he alone in a single boat would catch a minimum of 200 kg every day. Pull the other one its got bells on it!

It says "nets". 10 nets a day @20 kg per net. Maybe he had 2 boats. Where does it say he alone in a single boat? Why are you being so abrasive? 

[Burma Bill]

1 hour ago, bradiston said:

It says "nets". 10 nets a day @20 kg per net. Maybe he had 2 boats. Where does it say he alone in a single boat? Why are you being so abrasive? 

I totally agree. This is a typical way of fishing on Tonle Sap lake:-

 

[hotchilli]

23 hours ago, geovalin said:

“We fishermen survive by water and fish. When there is no water and fish, what else can we hope for?” said Leng Vann. “Our future is dark,” he said, as he rowed his boat back to his modest home.

He recalls catching hundreds of kilos a day.... perhaps you should have thought about putting a few back for the future?