自然及環境類新聞組照銀獎作品。 捕魚? The Cataracts 1846年，探險家亨利-莫頓-斯坦利第一個踏上盧瓦拉巴河流域并發現了現在的民主剛果共和國當地居民的一種獨特的捕魚方式。他們在湍急的水面上搭建木架，編制巨大的木籃捕魚。 In 1876 the explorer Henry Morton Stanley first encountered the Lualaba River in what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo. While traveling along the Lualaba Stanley encountered the cataracts, a series of seven rapids stretching over 100km and around which he was forced to drag his boats while continuously facing attack from the Wagenia tribe. Stanley named the cataracts Stanley Falls and was to found the settlement of Stanleyville after the last cataract, where the river once more became navigable and where at last it became the Congo River. Stanleyville was renamed Kisangani in 1966 and today is one of DRC's largest cities. Stanley Falls is now Boyoma Falls and from Kisangani's bustling banks it is possible to look upstream and see a raging line of whitewater; the seventh and last cataract, which Stanley called a 'tumultuous rush'. Arriving here in 1877 Stanley described the method of fishing used by the Wagenia people, whereby they would climb out over the rapids on wooden frames and use wooden baskets to catch fish. The scene has not changed in over one hundred and thirty years. 
2010年8月4日，一名漁夫在位于剛果基桑加尼附近的博約馬報瀑布中檢查木籃。在這里捕魚最大的困難就是應付強勁的水流，也就是在這里盧瓦拉巴河匯入剛果河。 August 4，2010：A fisherman checks a basket at Wagenia Falls (or Boyoma Falls) in the middle of the Congo River, near Kisangani, DR Congo. The fishing here is some of the most difficult as fishermen must battle the full force of the flow, and it is here that the Lualaba River becomes the Congo river.
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