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This report from chinadialogue covers a number of examples from Jiangsu and Shandong in China where fishing communities are losing their livelihoods because of unchecked industrial growth. One of them is the village of Shuigou in Wudi county, Shandong where a local villager there refers to the mouth of the Zhangweixin River in the following way: “Now even the crops reject it. If ducks or geese touch it, they die.” Fish from the sea lose their scales “at a touch”…“When we fish them up in our nets, they are already dead.” Some of these fishermen are now turning to manual labour due to the unreliability of being able to catch any fish and some local communities are being forced to move because of contamination. It all paints a very grim picture for Chinese coastal communities and a stark reminder of the social costs of environmental pollution. |
