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Dutch anglers save fish as Rhine drought bites 
NL Source: global times 8/18/2022
Dutch anglers save fish as Rhine drought bites
Credit: AFP
Angler Mark Kouwenhoven grins as he wades into what's left of a dried-up Dutch lake where his colleagues are throwing slime-coated fish into buckets.

It's not the kind of catch they're used to - but that's because this time they're helping the government to save the fish from the drought gripping Europe.
 

Each fish will be moved nearby to the River IJssel, a Dutch branch of the drought-hit River Rhine that until recently had fed the lake with fresh water.

"It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it," says the 32-year-old ­Kouwenhoven, a member of the Eastern Netherlands Sportfishing Association.

 
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