Argentina: Fishermen are driven with bumper silversides

Don Nino slowly approaches, as does someone who already knows the path by heart, to the southern pier of the small shoulder of the port of Mar del Plata. "In an hour we should be turning around," said the "Wolf" Galeano, its owner and captain a while before, when we asked him about the approximate time when they would arrive at port to cover the discharge of cornalito. Don Nino went fishing for the couple with Sara Madre and this time, it was their turn to lift the cast. The first drawers can be seen from the dock. The cornalitos gleam like silver coins with Friday's shuffle. A stock truck on the top tray waits for the load. They are fished at a depth of 12 meters with a midwater net. "We brought 70 cajons from nearby, a few miles between the Lighthouse and the Breakwater," says Galeano, still on board and monitoring the discharge. One of the sailors fillets some silversides that came as by-catch. "It is for personal consumption," he says with a grimace on his face. The boats have ...