Sep
2007
25

Koh Kong Pictures

By Allan

Kampot woman sorting fish Cambodia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kampot Woman sorting fish

Allan Rickmann with Kampot Fishing Community     Boy on makeshift raft Kampot Cambodia

Chief of fishing village, Serla from Fisheries Information Centre, Allan and Kampot fish processor. Boy on makeshift raft in the fishing village near Kampot.

Kampot Fishing boats   Kampot girls picking meat out of crabs

Kampot fishing boats waiting for the weather to clear. Girls picking meat from boiled crabs. The recovered meat is in the plastic bags.

Ferry to route to Koh Kong  Extra flotation Koh Kong Ferry Cambodia

Ferry on the route to Koh Kong. Oil drums provide extra flotation to allow the ferry to transport bigger vehicles.

Cattle truck Koh Kong Ferry Cambodia   Boy on Koh Kong Ferry Cambodia

Cattle truck slips off the ramps while loading on to a Koh Kong Ferry. Vehicles spin their wheels and swerve on the wet and muddy planks. A passenger waits for the ferry to reach the other bank.

Koh Kong ferry with steel flotation tanks

Bigger river ferry with metal pontoons supporting the wooden car deck. The ferries are powered by car engines mounted to swivelling rigs with long propeller shafts. The ferries are steered by directing the propeller in different directions.

Thearith Koh Kong Cambodia

Thearith who manages the Koh Kong Fisheries Information Centre demonstrates how conical sea shells on a line are used to capture squid.  The squid take refuge in the empty shells and stay inside as the fisherman lifts them from the sea floor into his boat.

 

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