[DOC] [TLE] Aral Sea - Wikipedia [PAR] The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan (Aktobe and 
Kyzylorda ... The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the planet's 
worst ... The region's once-prosperous fishing industry has been essentially 
destroyed, .... In 1960, the Aral Sea had been the world's fourth-largest lake, with 
an area... [DOC] [TLE] BBC News - Waiting for the sea [PAR] Feb 25, 2015 ... Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one ... The Aral Sea, 
in Central Asia, used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, after the Caspian 
Sea, and Lakes Superior and Victoria. ... These big ships could not reach shallow 
docks when the sea started shrinking. ... But the rain stopped. [DOC] [TLE] Watch one of the world's biggest seas disappear: Nasa releases ... [PAR] Sep 29, 2014 ... It was once the world's fourth biggest sea, a vast lake in the middle of ... The lake 
they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world. ... 
Consequently, concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking 
body of water. The Aral Sea supported a thriving commercial fishing industry... [DOC] [TLE] The Aral Sea Crisis [PAR] In the last 60+ years the Aral Sea has suffered irreparable damage from an ... 
century it was the world?s fourth largest saline lake, and contained 10grams of 
salt per liter. ... In normal conditions, the Aral Sea gets approximately one fifth of 
its water ... Smaller lakes within the Aral Sea that have stopped being fed by river 
flows... [DOC] [TLE] Aral Sea basin - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ... [PAR] The Aral Sea basin includes the Syr Darya and Amu Darya, the Tedzhen ... 
Before 1960, the Aral Sea ranked as the world's fourth largest lake, after the ..... In 
1999, Tajikistan ranked third in the world for hydropower development, after the 
United States and the Russian Federation. .... All commercial fishing ceased in 
1982. [DOC] [TLE] Naturesociety linkages in the Aral Sea region - ScienceDirect [PAR] Nov 30, 2012 ... Central Asia's Aral Sea crisis represents a disaster of monumental proportions, ... 
Once the world's fourth-largest inland water body, the Aral today is a ..... The 
Russian Empire decision to concentrate cotton production in Central .... the Aral 
Sea, enabled the return of fishing as well as this small lake's climatic... [DOC] [TLE] The Aral Sea Disaster [PAR] Apr 4, 2007 ... water, fish, Central Asia, irrigation, rivers, environmental degradation. Abstract. 
The Aral Sea is a huge terminal lake located among the deserts of ... channel to 
the Caspian Sea after it overtopped Sarykamysh, rather than into the Aral. Sea. ... 
world's fourth largest inland water body in 1960 (Micklin 1991, pp. [DOC] [TLE] Reclaiming the Aral Sea : Article : Scientific American - Nature [PAR] Recklessly starving the world's fourthlargest lake to irrigate crops turned rich 
waters ... lakes could become dead seas, however, unless the Amu river, which 
once fed ... Black Sea flounder (kambala in Russian), a saltwater fish introduced 
in the 1970s, ... Shipping on the Aral also ceased because the water receded 
many... [DOC] [TLE] Abstracts - zin.ru [PAR] Water Problems Institute RAS Russia, Moscow, Russia .... BC the Amu Darya 
stopped flowing to the Caspian Sea, changing its course to the ... The Aral Sea is 
one of the world's largest inland brackish water bodies. .... stopped. In the end of 
1970s indigenous commercial fish fauna was lost. ... Shrinking of the sea started 
in. [DOC] [TLE] The future Aral Sea: hope and despair | SpringerLink [PAR] May 5, 2016 ... As a terminal lake, it has surface inflow but no outflow. ... At 67,500 km2 in 1960, 
the Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest inland water body in .... Dr. Nikolay 
Aladin of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ... The vibrant 
commercial fishing industries ended in the early 1980s as the...

Question: Commercial fishing ceased in this shrunken Russian sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake
Answer: Aral Sea