Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Washington, DC Thursday, 29 July 2010
“If we didn’t do it, we would have nothing to eat,” he said, looking at fishing nets hanging on a nearby wall. “Fishing is our farming here.”Local fishermen on the Tonle Sap lake in the province of Battambang say they continue to fish illegally during the off-season.
In interviews with VOA Khmer, the fishermen said they have no choice but to continue fishing, sometimes with banned equipment, in order to feed their families, despite a three-month ban instituted by the government that begins each July.
“The ban is like breaking our rice pot,” said 53-year-old fisherman Chhun Leang.
He sat in a wooden house on the great lake, in the floating village of Anlung Ta Our, in Ek Phnom district, and when boats passed their wakes shook his home.
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