25.11.2022
Despondent Sunday anglers watch crestfallen as a trawler winches an enormous net out of the waters of the Bosphorus.
“Clear off!” they shout from the shore, impatient to get their hooks back into the depths of the strait that runs through Istanbul.
“I have been here since 6 am, but a trawler came and dropped its nets. That blocked us completely,” grumbled Mehmet Dogan, fed up at only having caught one fish all day, a 40-centimetre bonito.
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