Here! And here! And here! Countless plastic bags of frozen fish are lifted up from the freezer compartment of the fishing boat Berkahsahaba.
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The fishermen stand in a row and ease the bags from embrace to embrace, over to the loading platform of a van.
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Warhidin notices well that there are fewer and fewer fish in the sea.
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JAKARTA (Aftenposten): The world’s second largest fishing nation is in the process of emptying the sea of sea animals.
July 3, 2022 20:37
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Around 50 tonnes of mackerel and tuna have been taken home by the 35 fishermen after almost a month at sea. Not too bad catch, really, but they have had to travel far from Jakarta. Almost to the southern tip of Indonesia, not far from Australia.
– Today we are happy. But it is not so long ago that we would think that this was a modest catch, says Warhidin (46).
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