Nigeria’s Empty Shallows: Climate Change, Weak Fisheries Policy & The Battle For A Vanishing Catch

By FRED LONGJOHN OBEH IN Nigeria’s coastal communities, the climate crisis is increasingly being measured not in degrees of temperature but in empty fishing nets. For Christian Inyang, a fisherman in Ikot Inua Eyet, Akwa Ibom State, the transformation has been dramatic. The shallow waters that once sustained his family are producing smaller catches. Fish […]

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