A former fish poacher no longer fears a crocodile demise
Photo of Joseph Mwanga. USDA Forest Service photo by Sungeni Ngónamo
With spear in hand and nets at the ready, Joseph Mwanga was 21 when he started making a living by poaching. His catch was a large salmon-like fish called mpasa (Opsaridium microlepis). In the early 2000s, he and his friends would probe Malawi’s protected Bua River in…