The work of a fisherman is constant, sometimes it seems like there is never a break. Go out at dawn to throw nets, wait and get up. Knowledge and experience is necessary in this trade; The population of Topolobampo Bay has inherited the work and others with decades of learning continue to fish for their own food or sale. On the boardwalk, fishermen offer shrimp, crabs and fish at low prices; while dozens of boats work inside the bay.
“The bay is dead,” says a worker at the Gas and Petrochemical Company of the West (GPO), a subsidiary of the Swiss-German company, ProMan; which prepares an ammonia-based fertilizer plant on the shore of the bay. Communities such as Paredones, Lázaro Cárdenas and Topolobampo itself have come together to prevent the factory from being built due to the risk of a leak that could reach fishing waters.
“Not here” is the name of the movement which fishermen, children and women shout and defend.
