Narsaq's largest employer, a shrimp factory, sealed a few years ago after a molluscs fled north to cooler water. Where once there were 8 blurb fishing vessels, there is now one.
As a result, a race here, one of southern Greenland's vital towns, has been halved to 1,500 in only a decade. Suicides are up.
"Fishing is a heart of this town," pronounced Hans Kaspersen, 63, a fisherman. "Lots of people have mislaid their livelihoods."
But even as warming temperatures are upending normal Greenlandic life, they are also charity adult intriguing new opportunities for this state of 57,000 — maybe nowhere some-more so than here in Narsaq.
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