FEATURE-Warming seas bring Indonesia's fishermen deadly storms, empty nets
Indonesia's government has predicted the country of more than 17,000 islands could suffer annual economic losses of nearly 115 trillion rupiah ($7.4 billion) by 2024 due to the effects of climate change, with 70% of those losses in the marine and coastal sector. Along with driving increasingly hazardous extreme weather, global warming is also shrinking fish stocks around Indonesia, explained Yonvitner, a coastal and ocean resources expert at the IPB University in West Java.
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