Photograph by George Steinmetz @geosteinmetz A pair of fishing boats net the outer reef of the #Quirimbas Archipelago on the #Mozambique coast. Some twenty men are involved, as teams on both boats need to pull the line while snorkelers make sure that the fish don't escape through holes in the net, or gaps where the net snags on the rough coral bottom some eight meters below the surface. Their families are large, and their catch was small. They can only lay one or two nets in a morning before the winds pick up and the sea becomes too rough. Event the outer reefs of his once rich fishery are being rapidly over-exploited. To see more of the extraordinary Mozambique coast, go to @geosteinmetz and check out the conservation work of Andrea Marshall @queenofmantas
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