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One organisation is working with local fishermen to develop new...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eOverfishing and climate change have combined to deplete fish stocks in Cambodia's Koh Rong Archipelago, causing hardship in communities traditionally reliant on fishing. \u003cbr/\u003eOne organisation is working with local fishermen to develop new sources of income and to help preserve the marine environment. \u003cbr/\u003eFishing villages like Prek Svay on the island of Koh Rong, off southwest Cambodia, are on the front line in the battle against climate change and environmental degradation. \u003cbr/\u003eMarine biologists say ocean warming and overfishing have slashed fish stocks by as much as 80 percent in five years.     \u003cbr/\u003eLocal fish prices have doubled in the past year alone, from 5000 riels ($1.25) to 10,000 riels ($2.50) a kilo, adding to hardship in the community.\u003cbr/\u003eFor fishermen like Hin Sophal, making ends meet is becoming more difficult. \u003cbr/\u003e\"If we cannot fish in the sea, we're basically done for. We don't know how else we can take care of our families, we have to get other jobs to make some money. Now it's finished for people working in the sea. We're waiting for two or three more months to see if things get better. This fishing season is over now, we hope it's better next season,\" he says.    \u003cbr/\u003eMost local fishermen are limited to shore-based fishing with small nets or smaller boats offshore. \u003cbr/\u003eBut there's been a big increase in the number of large trawlers fishing off Koh Rong. Five years ago there were about 60, now there's more than 120, including many from neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam.    \u003cbr/\u003eThe fishing crisis is being exacerbated by ocean warming and acidification caused by climate change, according to marine biologist Ben Thorne who has been studying the waters around Koh Rong for two years.   \u003cbr/\u003e\"There's now global recognition of changing environments and in the marine environment, as in here in the Koh Rong Archipelago, is ocean acidification and ocean warming and we're seeing changes in the corals and the fish stocks here based on that ocean acidification. The corals can't cope with that increasing in temperature, they're stopping spawning at certain times of the year, they're not spawning when we're expecting them to spawn. The fish can't cope with that because their food source is depleting and with the ocean acidification - the dropping of the pH, the corals can't cope with that and they start to dissolve,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Song Saa Foundation has been set up to promote sustainability in the Koh Rong Archipelago. It has created a no-fishing marine reserve around the coral reef breeding grounds which has helped stabilise fish populations.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe foundation is also planting mangrove grasses and trees in vulnerable areas and working with former fishermen to develop new sources of income, such as growing mushrooms and fish farming.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Now we are working with the community, we help them as a part of our efforts to fight climate change,\" says Song Saa Foundation local manager Leng Phalla. \"We work with vulnerable people, the people who are most affected, by building fish farms and planting mangroves and sea grasses to conserve the environment. That is a part of their lives that they can control and manage sustainably and they can get nutrition from it while at the same time helping to preserve the environment.\"   \u003cbr/\u003eAfter a lifetime of fishing, Nok Pon and his family have been forced to find other ways to earn a living.\u003cbr/\u003eNok, who lost his arm fighting for the Cambodian navy in the 1980s, has switched to construction, building houses, schools and clinics all over the island. \u003cbr/\u003eThe family also grows mushrooms for sale to local restaurants and they have a small fish farm.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The fishing is getting so bad it's hard to take care of my family,\" says Nok. \"People have switched to working in the tourist areas, or building houses like me, or building cabins or something like that. You do whatever you have to do to take care of your family. In the village there are now less than 100 fisherman left. If you have big money you can fish further out so that's ok, but with a small boat like me you cannot do anything, just come out of the water.\"     \u003cbr/\u003eWith overfishing continuing unchecked in many areas, and with ocean temperatures rising, there's an uncertain future for fishing communities in the Koh Rong Archipelago.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003ePrek Svay village, Koh Rong island, Sihanoukville Province - 30 September 2014. \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of river running through fishing village\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of houses and boats \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of fire burning with boat in background\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of fish in a basket\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of man putting fish in a bag\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up pan from weighing scales to bag of fish \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of house\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium of woman frying fish \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of fish frying in a pan \u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium of man untangling fishing net \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Hin Sophal, fisherman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If we cannot fish in the sea, we're basically done for. We don't know how else we can take care of our families, we have to get other jobs to make some money. Now it's finished for people working in the sea. We're waiting for two or three more months to see if things get better. This fishing season is over, we hope it's better next season.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of man and girl fishing with net in the sea\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of fishing boats\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of fishing boat\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eKoh Rong island- 29 September 2014. \u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium of man looking for crabs by the seaside\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up of shell crabs in man's hand\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Thorne, Marine Biologist, Song Saa Foundation: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There's now global recognition of changing environments and in the marine environment, as in here in the Koh Rong Archipelago, is ocean acidification and ocean warming, and we're seeing changes in the corals and the fish stocks here, based on that ocean acidification. The corals can't cope with that increasing in temperature, they're stopping spawning at certain times of the year, they're not spawning when we're expecting them to spawn. The fish can't cope with that because their food source is depleting and with the ocean acidification - the dropping of the pH, the corals can't cope with that and they start to dissolve.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eOff Koh Rong - 28 February 2013\u003cbr/\u003e18. Medium underwater of coral\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide underwater of fish\u003cbr/\u003e20. Medium underwater of turtle\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide underwater of shoal of fish\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eKoh Rong island - 30 September 2014\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of building. \u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of tree nursery.\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of shelves of mushrooms.\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up of mushrooms.  \u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer), Leng Phalla, Local Manager, Song Saa Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now we are working with the community, we help them as a part of our efforts to fight climate change. We work with vulnerable people, the people who are most affected, by building fish farms and planting mangroves and sea grasses to conserve the environment. That is a part of their lives that they can control and manage sustainably and they can get nutrition while at the same time helping to preserve the environment.\"      \u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of people sitting under trees in a village\u003cbr/\u003e28. Medium of woman making roofing panels from reeds\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide pan of woman passing roofing panel to man sitting on roof\u003cbr/\u003e30. Medium of man tying panel to the roof\u003cbr/\u003e31. Wide of man working on roof\u003cbr/\u003e32. Medium of woman watering mushroom bags\u003cbr/\u003e33. Wide of man and boy standing behind fish pond\u003cbr/\u003e34. Medium of man and boy feeding fish\u003cbr/\u003e35. Medium of rice landing in water.\u003cbr/\u003e36. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Nok Pon, Fisherman:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The fishing is getting so bad it's hard to take care of my family. People have switched to working in the tourist areas, or building houses like me, or building cabins or something like that. You do whatever you have to do to take care of your family. In the village there are now less than 100 fisherman left. If you have big money you can fish further out so that's ok, but with a small boat like me you cannot do anything, just come out of the water.\"     \u003cbr/\u003e37. Wide of fishing village\u003cbr/\u003e38. 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