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An intimate bill of life in a Western world African fishing community, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an sea that is being radically changed. The sea is shattered, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii took the fish elsewhere. For centuries, anglers have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the seafood used to be so abundant a guy could dip his hand into the grey-green sea and pull one out as big as his thigh. However in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and environment change, the seafood are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all limitations are permeable - between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and storyline. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a period of unprecedented environmental, financial, and ethnic upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and surprise.
