Intha Fisherman
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There’s an elegance to net-casting. The fluid grace with which the fisherman tosses the net, the sudden beauty of the net forming a circle and dropping into the water, the easy rhythm of drawing the net back in. It’s as lovely as a dance, as simple as a prayer.
It’s also backbreaking, monotonous, necessary work done not for the beauty in it, but because it’s the most efficient low-tech method for gathering a lot of fish. It’s done at the break of dawn, it’s done at day’s end, and it’s done in the dark of night; it’s done when the fish gather. The life of a net-fisherman is driven by the internal clock of the fish.
The net gets cast…and in that perfect moment when it spreads out, that fraction of a second when the net hovers poised above one small patch of water under which there may or may not be fish…whole lives hang in the balance.
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