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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Priyanka Shankar

‘Kings of the world’: The last of the horseback shrimp fishers

Gregory Debruyne enters the waters of the North Sea with his horse, Kelly [Diana Takacsova/Al Jazeera]

Oostduinkerke, Belgium – A few hours after dawn one late July morning, the sound of Gregory Debruyne’s horse Kelly trotting through the verdant lanes of Oostduinkerke echoes through the quaint coastal village in west Belgium.

Pulling a cart filled with fishing gear and equipment to sift shrimps, Kelly – a brown Belgian draught horse – and Debruyne are heading towards the sandy shores of the North Sea to go shrimp fishing.

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