The World Bank - Climate Change - Indonesia

Samysuddin remembers when fish were so plentiful in the Indonesia's Spermonde Archipelago he would only set out to catch his dinner when his wife began to cook the rice.

"In less than an hour, I could catch many fish with my spear-gun. And sometimes I would come back with my fish before the rice was even cooked!"

But things have changed in the waters off Kapoposang Island in south Sulawesi. The coral reefs where fish used to frolic are turning white and are covered in algae.

Now, it often takes hours before he spears a single fish. "Sometimes I don't catch any fish and we'll go a whole day without eating any," he says.

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My Dad told me fishing in Florida used to be so easy you could catch fish in garbage cans instead of nets, but since he was a kid the population of Florida doubled to over 16 million.

The population of Indonesia is: 234,693,997 (July 2007 est.)

Source: CIA Factbook