23 March 2011
The river is a source of life for all around here. Some kids came to fish near my camp yesterday (a one and a half hour walk from their village) to help feed their families. Althought the fish in the pools are small, a bowlful of them adds welcome protein to a standard fare of cornmeal porridge.
The boys use hooks baited with green crickets but the girls wade right in, using government-supplied mosquito nets to corner and scoop their catch. The fish are subsequently cleaned (the little ones merely squeezed to pop out the gut contents) and then boiled with salt.
Fishing can be a thorny issue
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Foeitog, honger het nie fiemies nie.
nice recipe. we tried it once but must have forgotten the salt; great photos too
I suppose one can’t really blame them for using the mozzie nets for fishing ….
Ironic, because the fish would probably keep the mozzie populations down; but if you are hungry..