Fisherman Antonio Marcos, 43, makes a small living fishing for the little fish in Inhambane’s Lagoon. “The cost of living is too high for what I make” he says with a sigh before heading out again in his little dugout near dusk. Customers come in the evening after work to buy fish.
Around Inhambane, Mozambique small scale sustainable fishing and larger projects like new marine protected areas are trying to balance sociaty’s need for fishing livelihoods with a long term resource use plan that makes those livelihoods sustainable and ptotects some of hte ocean’s largest marine life.