The Ballad of Chile’s Last Outlaw Fishermen

On clear days, you can see dozens of ships from Chile’s artisanal fleet fishing the cool waters of the country’s southern coast, their nets extended across rings of yellow buoys. It can take a half-dozen nets full of fish to top up the ships’ fifty-ton holds. For the men of the ships—who work whenever there is light and wherever they find fish—this means days of hauling line, stacking and repairing nets, and siphoning fish into the hold.