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The Mekong River. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashandsmoked/1357553641/">tashandsmoked(flickr)</a>

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Mekong Dams Cause a Stir

Before it reaches the sea, the Mekong River travels more than 2,500 miles through Tibet, China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is estimated that more than 60 million people depend on the river in some way.

More Gazans depend on food aid, thanks to the blockade. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

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Blockade Threatens to Worsen Food Crisis

The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza strip is crippling the Gazan fishing industry.

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Still Swimming, but Millions Fewer Due to Virus

Chile's salmon industry is worth $2 billion and the fish are one of the country's top four exports. Chile is the biggest supplier of salmon to the U.S. and second to the world.

Pirates stock up on goats, cigarettes and other supplies when they return to shore. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesfred/62784891/">CharlesFred (flickr)</a>

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Piracy Boosts Somali Economy

Piracy along Somalia's coastline represents a very lucrative business — as the pirates collectively earned an estimated $150 million in 2008 — but what is piracy's effect on Somalia's

Biorocks in action. Photo: Rani Morrow-Wuigk

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Indonesia's Coastal Economy is on the Biorocks

Walking down the beach at Pemuteran Bay provides a glimpse into both the past and future of Indonesia’s coastal communities. One end of the beach serves as the mooring and launching area for the fleet of traditional fishing craft that have so long provided subsistence to the community.

Fisheries are being demolished, while nations argue over who and what is to blame. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/christing/171182413/">Christingo (flickr)</a>

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Hungry whales - or more political maneuverings?

As fisheries decline, nations are busy arguing over who's to blame. Japan is pointing to whales as a culprit, and in doing so, drawing the ire of conservationists and scientists.

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Oyster Farming: The New Fishing Alternative

Struggling fishing communities Brazil may have found a way to turn their economic troubles around. A university there has set up a fishermen's cooperative to introduce oyster farming in the area and boost economic development.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheftami/56510231/">taminsea (flickr)</a>

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Grim Fishing Practices

The International Herald Tribune reports today on a grim occurrence in Jamaica that is becoming more common for the world's rivers.

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Biting the Hand that Feeds You

This week's New York Times article Europe Takes Africa's Fish and Migrants Follow raises a perplexing problem:

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Risking Everything for Europe

Industrial fishing off the African coast ruins livelihoods and sends fishermen on a perilous journey across desert and sea.

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Communities Come Together to Protect Water Sources

Kenya's Nanyuki River is drying up, and thousands of Kenyans who rely on it are working together to learn how to reverse this process.

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Lake Kivu - A Time Bomb or Source of Energy?

Lake Kivu, one of Africa's Great Lakes, is showing measurable increases in methane gas deposits, potentially harming the fishing industry vital to the region's economy.

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Faces of Globalization- Organic Shrimp

Organic shrimp farming helps revitalize Ecuadorian ecosystem.

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A Raindrop Cleans the Wetlands

In Thailand, an NGO helps impoverished fishermen, and the environment.

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