For a thousand years now, fishermen have ploughed the rich seas of the Swahili Coast for their bounty of fish. But all of this is changing now. A combination of overfishing, population increases, climate change as well as the recent discovery of gas fields in the region, is threatening this fragile equilibrium. The fishing communities that occupy these shores are particularly at risk, and it could be that we are now witnessing the last of fishing and sailing traditions that had remained largely intact for hundred of years.