Indonesia’s Avatar sea nomads enact Indigenous rules to protect octopus

Mongabay
Jun 20, 2024, 7:28 pm286 pts
POHUWATO, Indonesia — Moji Tiok has spent more than a decade casting off into the Gulf of Tomini, where he spends hours hunting with traditional fishing gear among a diminishing pool of octopus south of Indonesia’s Gorontalo province. “I’ve been an octopus fisherman since 2013, and back then it was very…

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