{"id":24174,"date":"2020-10-26T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/26\/we-do-not-get-a-chance-at-happiness-the-bangladeshi-fishermen-caught-by-debt"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:45:16","slug":"we-do-not-get-a-chance-at-happiness-the-bangladeshi-fishermen-caught-by-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24174","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We do not get a chance at happiness\u2019: the Bangladeshi fishermen caught by debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilsa fishermen must borrow to buy equipment but have to sell their catch at a low price to moneylenders \u2013 creating a generational debt trap<\/p>\n<p>Kalam Sheikh\u2019s life revolves around the few months when he goes in search of Bangladesh\u2019s prized hilsa fish. When he gets a good catch, he can make enough money to live on for the rest of the year. He can pay off some of his debts and even improve his home.<\/p>\n<p>But this fragile annual cycle has been broken this year, with bad catches bookended by months off the water by the coronavirus pandemic and government restrictions to stop overfishing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/26\/we-do-not-get-a-chance-at-happiness-the-bangladeshi-fishermen-caught-by-debt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilsa fishermen must borrow to buy equipment but have to sell their catch at a low price to moneylenders \u2013 creating a generational debt trapKalam Sheikh\u2019s life revolves around the few months when he goes in search of Bangladesh\u2019s prized hilsa fish. Whe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,327,456,847,65,1019,59,468,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bangladesh","category-conservation","category-employment","category-environment","category-fishing","category-global-development","category-marine-life","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions\/24175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}