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These photos are taken from the archive at the Green Library at Stanford University:
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Walking up the road in the warm night, with the town sleeping around them, two men turn onto a dirt track between ramshackle houses towards the beach.\u00a0 Where the coconut palms meet the rocks and gravel, they pass young men who have wrapped themselves in thin colored cloth.\u00a0 They’re sleeping on the ground, their heads invisible. \u00a0

Fishing boats are drawn up on the beach.\u00a0 The two men, a young teenager and an older man, walk over to the best-looking boat, painted red with indistinct words on the side.\u00a0 It’s a thin, shallow hull, with a small covered section in the middle over a diminutive motor.\u00a0 Two white outriggers are tied to the end of curving bamboo arms, one on each side.\u00a0 A big net is wrapped up under a cover in the middle of the boat.
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The sleeping men wake up.\u00a0 Together they begin pushing the boat on bamboo rollers down the beach.\u00a0 Lifting the outrigger arms, they slide the hull into the water, and the boat floats in the small waves.\u00a0 It’s almost totally dark, a crescent moon moving in and out of clouds crossing the sky.

The older man hoists a bag full of beer, and gingerly walks from the needle-nose prow down into the hold between the engine and the net, as the boat rocks gently beneath him.\u00a0 He is Ayon, the captain.\u00a0 Beboy, his helper, jumps on. Ayon starts the motor, and the boat pulls away from the beach. \u00a0

Ayon loops a wire connected to the accelerator around his big toe.\u00a0 With one hand he steers the boat with a long pole connected to the rudder, while he guns the small engine with his foot.\u00a0 They set out into total darkness, the boat rising and falling with the waves.\u00a0 Bohol’s strange peaks are looming dark shapes on the horizon, above the tiny lights of the towns of Garcia Hernandez and Jagna.
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FISHING IN THE BOHOL SEA
Photoessay by David Bacon
Food First, 6\/11\/21
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