Off a quiet Tunisian island, Sara Souissi readies her small fishing boat. As a woman in the male-dominated trade, she rows against entrenched patriarchy but also environmental threats to her livelihood. Souissi began fishing as a teenager in a family of fishers off their native Kerkennah Islands near the city of Sfax, defying men who believed she had no place at sea. "Our society didn't accept that a woman would fish," she said, hauling a catch onto her turquoise-coloured boat. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES