Field Notes: Casting About in an Overfished River

Pacific Standard Staff
January 25, 2017
Assam, India: At sunset a fisherman casts his net on a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, where commercial overfishing has made it more difficult to operate.

This photograph originally appeared in the January/February 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.

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