Pollution, tourism put coasts at risk
By Xinhua in Nanning | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2015-06-12 07:31
Clear water harder to find, fish stocks fall and construction boom damages beaches
Depleted fisheries and pollution have left Wu Ruiwei and his peers in South 皇冠体育app's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region needing to travel farther out to sea for fish and shrimp.
Fisherman Wu, from Qiaogang, said he used to earn at least 300,000 yuan ($48,400) annually until five years ago. "Without the country's diesel subsidies to fishermen, I would be losing money now," he said.
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