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Free-diving ‘sea women’ of South Korea fight climate change threatening their fishing tradition | South China Morning Post

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Women who free-dive without oxygen to gather seafood in waters off South Korea face a new threat to their centuries-old traditions. Already under pressure from the competition of modern fishing methods, the haenyeo or “sea women” now see climate change degrading the marine habitat where they work. But Jin So-hee and…

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