Saving the Fish and The Fishermen

After bidding farewell to fishing, Zhao Zelun now spends more time on his farm and his newly renovated guesthouse on Zhongba Island in Chongqing Municipality in southwest China.

For nearly three decades, Zhao made a living as a fisherman on the Yangtze River. But in 2010, he started thinking of going offshore as the number of fish began to dwindle. When Zhao first began fishing in the early 1990s, it was a different story; he could easily catch hundreds of kilograms of fish in one trawling. But in recent years, he could hardly get one 10th of that.

“The money I earned from fishing dropped dramatically and I gradually realized that