http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/taxonomy/term/149/all en http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/images/fishing-polluted-waters <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" width="683" height="1024" title="Fishing in Polluted Waters" alt="" src="http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/sites/default/files/images/NIG06018_2705.jpg?1250017286" /> </div> </div> </div> <p>With the Mobil Exxon Gas Plant across the water, fishermen arrive to drop their catches of bonga fish, gold fish, silver fish and crayfish. Due to pollution caused by the oil companies, the catches have decreased in quality and quantity. This has caused major problems of unemployment for the local young men. The local women haggle over the size and price of their purchases along the waterside.</p> <p>This scene is in the fishing village of Finima, which is a newly relocated community caused by the rapid growth of the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas plant on Bonny Island.</p> http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/images/fishing-polluted-waters#comments boats culture deprivation Ed Kashi environment Exxon fish fishermen fishing food gas plant health human rights life market Mobil oil oil industry pollution waterside Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:07:34 +0000 admin 183 at http://www.nigerdeltarising.org