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Madagascar's Vezo: 'The sea is our life'

Claudio Sieber
July 23, 2025

In the turquoise waters of southwestern Madagascar, the Vezo people have fished for generations using hand-built pirogues and ancestral knowledge of the ocean. But as industrial fishing encroaches, and stocks dwindle near the shore, families are forced to venture farther—and deeper—into uncertain waters.

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