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“That’s why my husband hardly ever goes out anymore. You have to go far out to sea,” says Florencia Hernandez, 81, grandmother of Otsoa and Ram\u00f3n, known locally as Pola. In a wheelchair surrounded by memories\u2014black and white portraits, lead hooks, the fishing line she holds in her hands\u2014she is the longest-lived witness of the transformation that her land has undergone. She learned the fishing trade in her youth.<\/p>\n

“My father taught me. Like my grandfather, he was a fisherman. He had a little wooden boat, and he took me when I was a child,” says Hernandez while showing a photo album. “Later, I fished with my brother Salvador. I was the one who grabbed the motor. We would go out at night. When I got married, I accompanied my husband. I would get up very early in the morning, leave the clothes washed and laid out for when we returned from the day’s work. In a short time, we would fill baskets with fish that we would sell in the afternoon,” she says.<\/p>\n

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