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Mozambique’s Fishermen Point to China as Fish Stocks Dwindle

Mozambique’s Fishermen Point to China as Fish Stocks Dwindle
Fishing is one of the major economic activities in Beira, Mozambique. File Photo by Andrew Mambondiyani for The Epoch Times
Andrew Mambondiyani
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BEIRA, Mozambique—Luis Domingo, a fisherman in Beira, Mozambique, is following the trade that has sustained his family for generations.

But now, he said, “I can go out to the ocean for the whole day and come back ashore with a very small catch or nothing at all.

Andrew Mambondiyani
Andrew Mambondiyani
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Andrew Mambondiyani is a freelance journalist based in Zimbabwe with more than 10 years of journalism experience. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT between 2010 and 2011, and in 2008 served as a Middleburry College Environment Journalism Fellow. His journalism has appeared in various local and international publications, including BBC, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Yale E360, IPs, Think Africa Press, SciDev.net, Centrepoint Now, Opendemocracy.net, and The Zimbabwean. He has a special interest in climate change, agriculture, human rights, sustainable development, and the environment in general.
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