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Tonle Sap, Cambodia - Fishermen travel into the vast darkness of the Tonle Sap to set oil lamps across their fishing ground. A single boat may carry hundreds of kerosene lamps - enough flame and fuel to make each night a risk of fire, leakage, and accident on the water. Though this method is illegal, many fishing families continue to use it under the pressure of survival, working between danger, law, and the need to bring home a catch before dawn.
Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A young fisherman lights kerosene lamps before a night of fishing on the Tonle Sap. The flames will be set across the water to attract insects, drawing fish toward the glow. On boats like this, children often learn the work early - handling fire, fuel, and nets in the darkness, where family survival depends on what can be caught before dawn.
Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A fisherman fills oil lamps used to attract fish during night fishing on the Tonle Sap. Each lamp burns kerosene, casting light across the dark water to draw insects and fish toward the boat. But every night, dozens of boats using this method release leaking fuel into the lake. What helps one family make a catch also leaves a quieter damage behind - oil spreading into the water that sustains both fish and people.
Tonle Sap, Cambodia - After dark, fishermen set out across the Tonle Sap carrying dozens - sometimes hundreds - of kerosene lamps. The flames draw insects toward the water; as they fall, fish gather beneath the light. Before dawn, or when experience tells them the fish have gathered in enough numbers, the fishermen lower a special net into the darkness and lift the night’s catch from below.
Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A fisherman empties a night catch of small fish into the storage hold beneath his boat. Drawn toward the glow of oil lamps, many of the fish caught this way are juveniles - part of the lake’s future stock before they have time to mature. The Tonle Sap’s flooded forests normally provide food and shelter for larvae and young fish, but heavy fishing pressure, habitat loss, and declining fish populations have made that cycle increasingly fragile. Each night’s catch becomes both a livelihood and a warning: the lake is being asked to give faster than it can renew itself.
Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A boat owner gathers fish from one round of night fishing on the Tonle Sap. Through the darkness, the catch is collected again and again, each haul stored beneath the wooden deck before the boat returns to the water. For fishing families, the night is measured in repeated labor - lamp light, nets, small fish, and the pressure to bring home enough before dawn.