3AM in Kokrobite, 3 fishermen and me on the beach, about to push the boat in the sea. It will be a bit of a fight against the waves, but the guys do it every night, except for Tuesdays, because Tuesday is for the fish to rest. Once we are behind the big waves, we are going in a straight line for about 15/20 minutes, then the guy on the rudder is holding his ear against the rudder to listen for fish. First time no luck, but second time was succesfull. As shown in the third photo, the net was thrown in the water and then we drove parallel to the coast for 3-5km. After they finished putting the net in the water, 2 of the 3 fishermen took a nap, while we waited for the sun to rise. After the sun rose, they started pulling in the net and collecting the fish out of the net. It took about 1,5h to pull the net in.
After sunrise and before sunset this fisherman is fishing at Lacoma beach. He observes the water surface, looking for air bubbles. If he finds air bubbles, he throws the water in front of where the bubbles are coming from, because the bubbles are delayed from where the fish actually are. First few times he wasn't successfull but then he cought a lot two times in a row. Most of the times he just catches them for himself and his family, but if it's too many, he sells them. Sometimes he catches some plastic so he has to pick it out of the net.
Lake Bosumtwi, ~230km north-west of Accra, is the result of a meteor about 1 million years ago. It's 11km in diameter or with a canoe it takes about 1,5h to cross. The canoe is a tree split vertically and somehow everyone can identify their own canoe. Most of the fishermen fish at night, it's pitch black, no torch. Just the fishermen and the fish.
