Belgium's traditional horseback fishers see climate change in their nets

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On a crisp, wintry day on Belgium's far-western coast, Gunther Vanbleu rides his draft horse down the sandy beach and into the shallow waters.

Gunther Vanbleu, 49, a Belgian shrimps fisherman with 10 years of experience, rides his carthorse named Martha to haul a net out of the sea to catch shrimps during low tide in the Belgian coastal town of Oostduinkerke, as part of the Belgian tradition and UNESCO's Representative List of the...

"We have less shrimp catch than we used to. But we also have more weevers and animal species that you didn't see here before, which come from the Atlantic as the water warms up," Vanbleu told Reuters. Weevers are small, venomous fish that tend to burrow into the sand with just their eyes visible. "The season finished when we saw the first snow; in December, it finished. Now, we don't see snow," said fisherman Eddy D'Hulster.

 

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