Barracuda, Grouper, Tuna And Seaweed: Madagascars Fishers Forced To Find New Ways To Survive

Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo people Along Madagascars south-west coast, the Vezo people, who have fished the Mozambique Channel for countless generations, are defined by a way of life sustained by the sea. Yet climate change and industrial exploitation are pushing this ocean-based culture to its limits. Coastal villages around Toliara, a city in southern Madagascar, host tens of thousands of the , who make a living from small-scale fishing on the ocean. For centuries, they have launched pirogues , small boats carved from single tree trunks, every day into the turquoise shallows to catch tuna, barracuda and grouper. A boat near lines of seaweed, which has become a main source of income for Ambatomilo village as warmer seas, bleached reefs and erratic weather accelerate the decline of local fish populations