Click For Photo: https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2018/afishiscaugh.jpgEgypt's shrinking freshwater "Pharaonic Sea" has residents in its nearly 50 surrounding fishing villages worried.
The thin 10,000-square kilometre stretch of water just north of the capital was once part of the Nile River, but shrivelling shorelines have left it separated from the country's main water source for nearly 50 years.
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Since then, inhabitants in the surrounding villages have referred to it as the "dead sea".
And while its surrounding lush vegetation remains, the sea's steadily declining water levels have fishermen on edge.
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The worry has fuelled anxious meetings regularly held by fishermen.
In the village of Kafr Fisha, families live in rhythm with the sea in houses built along the water's edge.
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Like dozens of other fishermen, Sherif, 41, and Khaled, 55, are out of the house and onto the water before dawn.
They spend...
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