Maria Sábado de Horta Fidalgo, 42, lives in the village of Rincão on Cabo Verde’s Santiago Island and has been working as a small-scale fisher since leaving high school at the age of 17. She inherited a fishing vessel from her father, who was a life-long fisherman, and with this acitivity...

8 June, Dakar/Foundiougne/Rome - Ndèye Isseu Ndiaye is a seafood processor from the coastal community of Foundiougne, in Senegal’s Saloum Delta. This married mother of six helps to support her household by producing dried and semi-conserved shrimp. She says that shrimp and other marine creatures have become scarce in her lifetime. ”We...

8 June, Jakarta/Menarbu/Rome - Yustus Menarbu, 37, is a member of the Roon Indigenous community and a traditional fisherman from the coastal village of Menarbu in Indonesia. Like the rest of the 238 people who live in his village, Yustus and his wife and their nine children depend on artisanal fishing...

8 June, Lima/Manta/Rome - José Augusto López Zambrano, 41, is a third-generation pole-and-line tuna fisher from Manta, Ecuador. This married father of two has been honing his craft since the age of 12, when he started accompanying his own father at sea. “I hope my children — Juan Diego, 12, and Amber,...

16 October, Dionewar - Mariama Sarr works as a seafood harvester and processor in the community of Dionewar, an island in Senegal's Sine Saloum Delta. Thanks to their work, Ms Sarr and her colleagues provide food such as dried oysters and shrimp semi-conserves to their community, which depends largely on small-scale...