Inside Pakistan’s Untapped Fishing Industry

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A boy plays on top of a pile of household garbage that covers the road as well as the nearby sewage canal in Karachi’s Machar Colony, Pakistan on November 3, 2009. The raw sewage along with most of the floating garbage flows into the sea where local fisherman work every day to make their living. Captions and Photo source: ©© Balazs Gardi

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According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pakistan, nearly 400 million gallons per day of untreated waste from Karachi goes into the sea, making a fisherman’s job an extremely dirty one.

Pakistan has the potential to become a major producer of seafood, not only for local consumption but for the global market as well. Currently, nearly 400,000 people are directly engaged in fishing in Pakistan and another 600,000 in the ancillary industries…

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