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December 01, 2016

As oceans empty, Kenya fishermen must adapt or disappear
Pate Island, Kenya (AFP) Nov 30, 2016
Ahmed Ali Mohamed snorkels over sea grass and coral, keeping an eye out for different fish species darting through the waters below him. But his job is not to catch the fish - as his family has done for generations - instead he only counts them. Mohamed is one of the first former fishermen to be retrained as a ranger monitoring the health of the reef off Pate Island in southeastern Kenya, where fortunes are dwindling as fast as the fish in the sea. Pate's fishermen have plied the inshore ... read more

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6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Develop commercial strategies for the global deployment of SMRs and Advanced Reactors

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