Off the hook: Fishing industry in Mogadishu
A look at the fishing community in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, which has been rebounding from instability over the last two decades. The industry there is also finding a place in the international export market. Photos taken by Stuart Price for the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team.
- Somali men looking across Mogadishu’s fishing harbor in the early morning as fishermen land their catch and transport their fish to the fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu. Picture taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via AFP/Getty Images)
- A Somali man pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with freshly caught fish from the Indian Ocean towards Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, March 16, 2013. Over the last two decades, instability on land has greatly restricted the development of the country’s fishing industry, but now that Somalia is enjoying the longest period of sustained peace in over 20 years, there is large-scale potential and opportunity to harvest the bountiful waters off the Horn of Africa nation. (AU-UN IST). (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- A Somali man carries a large sailfish to the fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu. Every morning Mogadishu’s fisherman bring their catch ashore upon which it is quickly unloaded and transported to Xamar Weyne’s fish market where it is sold for consumption on the local market and, increasingly, for export to other countries. Picture taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via AFP/Getty Images)
- A Somali man carries a large sailfish to the fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu on March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via AFP/Getty Images)
- A Somali man pauses while carrying a large sailfish on his head as he transports it to Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- Traders wait to sell their fish inside Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- A trader waits to sell fish inside Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- Traders and buyers negotiating over different species inside the fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu on March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via AFP/Getty Images)
- Freshly caught tuna fish are lined up for sale inside Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- Traders wait to sell their fish inside Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- Freshly caught sailfish are lined up for sale inside Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)
- Traders cut and fillet fish inside Mogadishu’s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, in this photo taken March 16, 2013. (Stuart Price/ AU-UN IST Photo via Reuters)