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Alec Jacobson

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National Geographic: Fishermen fight to survive on the world's second largest lake
Location: Burlington, Vermont, USA
Nationality: American
Biography: Alec Jacobson is a photographer and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who likes to dive deep into slow-moving stories.  Drawing on his studies in Anthropology, French and Arabic at Amherst College, he prefers to be the only... MORE
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National Geographic: Fishermen fight to survive on the world's second largest lake
Copyright Alec Jacobson 2024
Date of Work Oct 2018 - May 2019
Updated May 2019
Topics Abundance, Arrests and Prosecutions, Beachs, Business, Capitalism, Community, Confrontation, Conservation, Corruption, Dictatorship, Documentary, Dreams, Editorial, Environment, Essays, Food, Globalization, Human Rights, Hunger, Immigration, Oppression, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics, Portraiture, Poverty, Soldiers, Travel, Water, Workers Rights

Lake Victoria supports hundreds of thousands of people, but overuse caused fish populations to collapse. Uganda sent in soldiers—but has it worked?


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This project was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society.  
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