A group of locals load up a large fishing boat with nets and push out to sea as the sun rises one early morning on the Arabian Coast of India.

Hundreds of rustic little fishing villages lie along the dark sands of the Arabian Sea. Through the short hours around dawn to the golden sunset at dusk, the fathers of the traditionally large Indian families are busy both at sea and on the mainland, heaving and weaving, mending and pushing. Meanwhile, the women keep them well fuelled with sweet warm ‘chai’ and are ready to sort through the days catch before lurking it up to the village