‘No fish’: How dams and climate change are choking Asia’s great lake

For more than half a century, January meant prime fishing season for Pang Bin. He took his wooden boat out into Cambodia’s largest lake, his catches and their sales sustaining his family for much of the year.

This month, the 75-year-old decided to call it quits, but not because of age or any health concerns.

“No fish,” he shrugged. “Just very, very poor. I’ve never seen a year like this.”

In full: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-20/how-climate-change-and-dams-threaten-one-of-the-worlds-great-lakes

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