Mozambique: Use of Pesticides to Kill Fish For Market

Residents living near Muziba irrigation scheme in the central province of Zambezia, are selling fish caught using soil contaminated with obsolete pesticides.

The wife of a fisherman wades out to meet her husband returning from fishing in the Zambezi River near Mopeia in Mozambique.

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