A fisherman fishes in the Tonle Sap in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. - AP
KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia (AP): Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood.
For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, Southeast Asia’s largest lake and the epicenter of the world’s most productive inland fishery. But climate change, dams upstream on the Mekong River that sustains the lake, and deforestation in the region have changed everything.
