Filipino fishers count the cost of South China Sea dispute

For fishermen like Joey Marabe in the Philippine province of Zambales, the geopolitical contest playing out in the China-sea" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="8346" data-entity-type="location">South China Sea can be measured in dwindling catches and shrinking incomes, as the presence of Chinese vessels around a contested shoal increasingly limits where they can work.“It’s a huge drop. Before, a lot of us who could go out to Scarborough Shoal used to bring home around 15,000 pesos (US$238) a week, a comfortable amount for our families,” said Marabe, a resident of Masinloc town and provincial coordinator for the national fisherfolk federation Pamalakaya.