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Field recording · Zambia

Rigs moving out on the lake for the night

Sinazongwe District, Southern Province, Zambia

A 8-minute field recording by radio continental drift made in Sinazongwe, Zambia on 7 July 2018, in the evening. Soundscape: sea & waves and night soundscapes.

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Rigs moving out on the lake for the night
7:55CC BY-SA 3.0by radio continental driftInternet Archive
7:55
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Recordist's notes

Kapenta fishing is big business at Kariba lake; for three weeks every months, the lake is filled with kapenta rigs fishing; in fact, from far away, a newcomer may think there's a big city out there in the dark; only one week over the full moon, there's quite; fishing is not permitted; each rig has at least two generators running, one to lift the net the other for movement of the rig...

Written by radio continental drift on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Sinazongwe is a town of about 15,191 people in Southern Province, Zambia. OttoAnna lists 23 field recordings from here.

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