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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Photo: On Africa's Largest Lake, Fishers Suffer Falling Stocks, Rising Demand


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Locals crowd around an arriving fishing boat in the Lake Victoria village of Ggaba, Uganda, in November 2006. European demand has led to overfishing of the lake's prize catch, Nile perch, and dwindling stocks are putting the squeeze on the growing numbers of fishers migrating to the region.

Photograph by Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press