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Article: Iraqi Fishermen Complain Tigris River Catches Not What They Used to Be.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- December 25, 2003
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Byline: Chip Somodevilla
Dec. 25--BAGHDAD, Iraq--Abed al Redahs Shukur, 52, and his cousin Tarik Kamel Jabar, 29, have been fishing the Tigris River together as long as they can remember.
"When I was born, I was with him," Jabar said.
They've fished through war and dictatorship, through considerable pollution and the occasional body part. On a good day, they'll split the equivalent of $10.
Shukur and Jabar are out by 6 a.m., pushed upriver by a little 12-horsepower Johnson outboard. It's pretty on the flat, slow-moving Tigris, at least for an urban river. The shoreline is reedy in places as it winds through Baghdad, though much of it ...