Net loss: fish stocks dwindle in Cambodia's Tonlé Sap lake | Sam Jones

Despite the creation of a 200-hectare conservation area, fishing communities on south-east Asia's largest freshwater lake fear their way of life is slipping away

Out past the floating villages, the daytrippers and the mangrove arcades, the brown waters of the Tahas river open into a vast, dull green lake fringed by forest and a seemingly endless horizon.

Silhouetted by a sinking afternoon sun, distant figures fish from small boats under a blue sky streaked with low cloud. It is the kind of weather that both tourists and Savon Pen prefer.