Pollution erodes fish stocks and livelihoods in Egyptian lake ...Kuwait

Set between irrigated farmland and rocky desert southwest of Cairo, once pristine Qarun Lake used to teem with tilapia, bass and bream and shrimp, offering generous catches to fishermen from surrounding villages. But pollution from agricultural runoff and industrial and domestic waste has in recent years sullied its beauty and sent those stocks plunging, destroying an industry that had provided jobs for generations, fishermen say. "The lake was so generous, all kinds of fish were abundant. The taste of the fish was the best and the prices were good," said one, Farag Abdel Sattar Awad. "But the lake became polluted, so people started to find alternatives to fishing," h

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