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Cambodia Faces Possible Food Crisis: 'Water But No Fish'

Malis Tum

   PHNOM PENH - For centuries, Cambodians have looked to Tonle Sap, both a
   river and a lake, for dinner. But a repast of grilled river fish,
   sprinkled with salt and stuffed with lemongrass, may soon be a very
   special event.

   Today, "there is only water but no fish," said Nan Sok, 60, gazing at
   Tonle Sap Lake from his house on the outskirts of the capital city of
   Phnom Penh.

   A Cambodian Muslim fisherman, he recalled that in 1979 he could "catch
   the fish just by dipping my hand in the water there were so many. '¦
   But now even if I use a big net for a whole day, there would be
   nothing."

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