China's fishing communities adapt to life on land
Share Passengers get off Yang Zeqiang’s boat as it arrives at the bank opposite Zhongba, a small island near to the southwestern city of Chongqing. AFP China’s fishing communities adapt to life on land Sun, 20 December 2020 Yang Zeqiang’s boat chugs across the Yangtze ferrying a few people and sacks of grain – his new source of income after all fishing was halted along China’s longest river in the name of environmental protection. As a boy, Yang remembers seeing his father and grandfather head out in the early morning dark to earn a living fishing the upper Yangtze in China’s sout...