Culture of the sea. Artisanal fishing in El Realejo from the Visual Anthropology

Abstract

The Realejo, due to its biogeographic characteristics, allows the inhabitants to carry out different economic activities among these mangrove cut, shell and punche extraction, artisanal fishing being the one with the highest productivity, all linked to the coastal ecosystem. Artisanal fishing is for the Realejeño the economic activity of greater height, due to the conditions that the ecological surroundings lend are numerous the families that dedicate themselves to this activity, where it is remarkable the sexual and social division of the work due to established social constructions, where young people are responsible for exercising physical force in the productive sphere and women an administrative role. Being a fisherman implies a great adaptation to the maritime environment. The productive process involves search, detection and capture, for this the fisherman relies on the net of trammel considered the main means of production to fish, on the other hand, from this instrument different fishing gears are used. The objective of the present album, through its photographs, is to make known and explain the productive process carried out by the fishermen, which is a determining factor in the economic life of this town.