I used to be a student, but when I saw my parents struggling with the job, I knew I had to help out, so I dropped out and joined in fishing.
Fishing experience
There are times when we spend just one day at sea, but those times are getting fewer with each passing day. These days, we spend up to 10 days at a stretch at sea because we are no longer able to catch fish the way we used to. The big fish no longer come our way. The small fish used to be food for the big fish. Now that there is no small fish, there is also no big fish. There is nothing to attract them to us. They stay far away from where we can reach them. This is why we have to spend 10 days at sea: we simply need to reach the big fish.
The fish used to be plentiful in the past such that we only needed rods to catch them. Now we need nets.
Foreign Industrial Fleets
The boats take all the fish, especially the big ones. They come from different countries: Italy, Korea, Japan, China. They don’t take all the fish they catch. They reject some and throw them back into the sea.
We feel helpless because we cannot really compete with them. We are talking about boats owned by states and big corporations. They are simply not at our level.
The scarcity of fish has inflated its price. And we can only still survive, despite our depleted catch, because we can charge higher than before for the same number of fish. But we are catching less and less.
Migration
Migration has increased because of the scarcity of food. People can go months without catching anything significant that they can sell for money. After months with nothing, they decide to give migration a chance.