'Our only livelihood': Zimbabwean fishing communities fear for future as stocks dwindle

The country's first women's fishing co-operative has made a good living on Lake Kariba for a decade, but global heating, overfishing and lower rainfall now mean that catches are becoming increasingly sparseo Photographs by Cynthia R Matonhodze for the GuardianOn a stool on a fishing rig floating near the shore of Lake Kariba, a woman is furiously scraping off the scales from a fish. Eyes bloodshot after a night on the lake, created when the Zambezi River was dammed in the 1950s, Esnath Munkuli is not happy.More than a dozen of the pontoon boats have docked at the village of Simatelele, the crews warming themselves in the morning sun while others paddle wooden canoes perilously close to a hippo herd.Part of Esnath Munkuli's catch of the tiny fish from Lake Kariba known as kapenta Continue reading...