Fishermen in Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater fishery, the Tonle Sap lake, hope that raising eels will help them adapt to ...

north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) An aerial view of Em Phat’s eel farm on the edges of Tonle Sap lake, north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 31, ...

For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, Southeast Asia’s largest lake and the epicenter of the world’s most productive inland fishery.

Cambodian Fishermen Turn to Raising Eels as Tonle Sap Lake Runs Out of Fish KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia (AP) — Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his ...