CHOAM KROVEAN: Running into a thigh-deep muddy lake, villagers in eastern Cambodia used bamboo baskets and nets to scoop up their catch for an annual fishing ceremony where only traditional tools are used. Sporting straw hats and cotton checkered scarves to shield themselves from the blazing sun, hundreds
CHOAM KROVEAN: Running into a thigh-deep muddy lake, villagers in eastern Cambodia used bamboo baskets and nets to scoop up their catch for an annual fishing ceremony where only traditional tools are used.
The annual ceremony, back after a two-year COVID-19 pandemic hiatus, is held after the rice harvest and participants are only allowed to use traditional tools such as woven baskets and nets, Tbong Khmum province governor Cheam Chan Sophorn explained. "It is a message to our villagers and especially fishermen not to use illegal equipment ... so that fish will be around for hundreds of years to come for our younger generations," he told AFP in the middle of the muddy lake.
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