Fishing – Strangers Guide

Myanmar

A Disappearing Way of Life

by Kathy Hornsby

Palawan

Over 10 years ago, a fisherman in Palawan, an island archipelago in the Philippines, found what’s believed to be the world’s largest pearl. The...

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South Africa

An Oyster’s Journey

by Alexander Wooley

Not too long ago, I was on a media junket run by the Hong Kong government....

Asia

More than 1,000 years ago, both European and Asian fishermen relied on trained cormorants to help them catch fish. The practice still continues in...

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China

“Here, in the fishing port of Tanmen in the southern island of Hainan, 50-year-old captain Chen...”

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England

In 1653, Englishman Izaak Walton published his first edition of The Compleat Angler, as much a meditation on fishing and enjoying time on the...

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Ghana

Fishing is an integral part of Ghanaian culture and the economy. But on Tuesdays, fishing typically ceases across the country and fisherman avoid the...

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Global

Slavery at Sea

The very dark side of the fishing industry

by Sophie Bertazzo

In 2015, investigative journalists began to shine a piercing light on seafood’s dark secret: that the...

Canada

“It used to be a good living, fishing. It was all inshore fishing when I was...”

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