Mongabay, chaos on the coast

Fish catches in Cambodia's waters have dropped precipitously in recent years, and so have small-scale fishers’ incomes. The problem, they say, is that commercial trawlers have been illegally entering their fishing grounds, scraping the sea clean of life and, with it, their community’s ability to survive. And its not just at sea they are facing problems. Cambodia's coastline is being bought up by private companies with influential connections, forcing fishers off their land and leaving them fighting for survival.