The last reed boat fishers of Huanchaco | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Lorenzo Ucañan is a reed boat fisher. He comes from Huanchaco, a fishing village on the northwestern coast of Peru. Following tradition, he builds his reed boat, known as a ‘caballito’, himself. But he can no longer feed his family, due to the sharp decline in fishing yields.
In Huanchaco, a fishing village on the northwestern coast of Peru, Lorenzo Ucañan walks to the reed beds. He’s a fisher who learned the traditional craft of reed boat building from his father. The fishers of Huanchaco have been working in reed boats since time immemorial. Known as ‘caballitos’ or ‘little horses’, they make light work of the waves. People say that surfing was invented here 3,000 years ago; that the young men of the Chimú culture were sent out to sea in the boats to test their sailing skills.
Lorenzo builds a new boat every month. The craft could hardly be more sustainable: it’s made from natural materials, it doesn’t need any fuel, it doesn’t make any noise and when it’s no longer seaworthy (after about a month), it’s completely biodegradable. But in Huanchaco, more and more of the caballitos stand idle, an attractive addition to the beachscape. Fishing stocks and yields have seen rapid decline; the fishing profession is dying out.
Out at sea, it’s tourists who ride the waves on brightly colored Hawaiian boards. The locality is changing into a surfing hotspot. Lorenzo’s sons are keen not to miss out and work as surfing instructors. The older fishers view the decline of their craft with melancholy. While they desperately try to at least save the traditional "Fisherman’s Day” in honor of Saint Peter, Lorenzo’s son Joel organizes a big surfing competition. He has no trouble finding sponsors, whereas the fishers struggle to generate any interest in their celebration. But they go through with it anyway, demonstrating the tenacity they learned from the sea.
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currently staying in trujillo for work and you can see these boats as little gifts everywhere, i wouldn't have learned this much about the boats without this documentary. thank you
This is where I learned to surf almost 13 years ago and it was a great time. Loved this little town! and the reed boats were so cool to see all lined up along the beach.
thanks a lot for these documentaries, they are great for cultural knowledge and global citizenship learning
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What an amazing documentary!
From 2013 until 2021 this beautiful spot was my home for 6 months every year! The struggle has not been helped by lack of local and national government support. There is supposed to be a 5 mile (8 km) exclusion zone for motorised fishing boats along the coast here, to protect the local way of life. Despite this almost every day fleets of small trawlers are seen within this zone dragging the bottom of the sea with their nets (also illegal), often within sight of the Institute of Fisheries. I went in one day to ask about this, and they told me they do not have the resources to patrol the coastline, and rely on the coastguard who has more pressing concerns with large foreign fishing fleets. I hope that the fishermen manage to continue this wonderful tradition, which, for me, was a greater attraction than surfing!
I really hope all the best for these people and Peru 🇵🇪🇵🇪 for me is a great country to try both visit and live in coming from the Philippines. 😊❤
They're actually called "caballitos de tortora", which means "small horses made of reeds". I live in Huanchaco for almost 2 years and know many of the fishermen. The reeds are grown about a half mile from the town, which you forgot to mention.
Dw document share us every day amazing video
I would definitely take a few lessons on a reed boat. It looks like lots of fun!
They used the same material to make slightly wider boats, like a catamaran on lake Titicaca. The famous floating island is made of this material, + the boat. It's a tourist attraction, when stepping on it, I could feel that it's not solid ground.
I made a short video of my journey in Peru during September 2023. Feel free to check out my journey and let me know what you think 😊?
It was an amazing documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) documentary channel ..old lifestyle reminds stubbornly, challenges confront modern lifestyle is always defeat...bringing harmful circumstances
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I love this kind of videos ❤
This is really natural ingenuity,
I almost cried when the day of the fisherman came and it was successful.
Excellent! What an excellent documentary. I live in a tiny fishing village in Mexico. While it doesn't have this exact challenge, there have also been many changes.
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If making Reed Boats gets you millions of likes and views, watch how quickly kids would take up this tradition.
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Once upon a time everyone’s ancestors survived off the land. None of this knowledge and skills should ever be lost. Our manufacturing has been turned over to machines. Next will be ingenuity & industriousness & then machines will rule humans.
Golly! You must be the first person to say things used to be better in the distant past. Such wisdom! Are you a renowned historian? 🤔
@@TheStockwell That’s an inaccurate analysis of what I said. How to live off the land & understanding of the natural world is essential for the human race. People are entirely dependent on the artificial environments we have created, so the concept of a natural world is being promoted as a false reality. Instead, all humans & their machines create all life & the natural world does not exist.
Most have already lost ingenuity and industriousness. Everybody wants everything for nothing these days.
We all survive off the land lol every single person doesn't need to be a hunter or farmer. We survive off the land indirectly because our food still comes from the land and our clothes and building materials also comes from the land. Who would teach our children in school who will be our doctors nurses fire officers etcetera. The past you think is so great really wasn't that great it was just less crime and pollution. Would you be willing to give up your smartphone, car, Wi-Fi and all your modern amenities and use a latrine and walk barefoot
@@CB14049 Who said that every person has to know it? All that is being suggested is that we don’t allow the ways to die.
❤❤hopefully the politicians will see the old tradition will bring them money if they protect it. Locals must keep trying to protect their culture
The government hardly keeps up with it's famous tourist sites such as Machu Pichu. The trains between each destinations are still old slow trains. They said all the tickets are sold, when I got off the night train, there were only 3 train cars instead of 12 trains in a trip . There's no direct connection between each cities except taking discount airlines.
The underlying reality is simply that the world has changed so much in the last century or so that cultures and societies have yet to fully transition or acclimate. It's good in some ways and bad in other ways, and also very nostalgic, but through it all, we're living in a golden age. I'd rather live in a world where I can watch a documentary on this disappearing way of life on a laptop through the Internet than live back in the days when I'd have to do subsistence fishing on one of these boats. We've won the lottery by happening to live in this brief moment in the history of our species, come what may.
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Did anyone spotted the red 🦀 s crawling on the beach at the beginning?😊
I get that your translator might be trying to match English phrases but I want a LITERAL translation please 🙏🏻 also I surfed for ten years and we are everywhere, leave a place for the reed boats I say!
Change is hard
Hardly would you find creation without a trace to the past
DW, you never disappoint, except with your hyper-sensitive comment ban algorithm. Just wanted to say I'm proud of ya. 👍🏆
Life..
2:31 Now if you look really REALLY close, that's not belly fat, that's that man's six packs.
Lol
what is the title of the music at 33:56?
It is old tradition versus modernity of fishing...too bad for them because this area is the best fishery of the World .Big companies and Chinese fleet know the secret...it is them who will starve the indigenous fishermen .
Beyond that, there is a sad melancholia for loss...the loss began in 16th century when white men arrived in South America...God bless them, the newest threatened species...😊
9:15 this man is in his 60s and doesn't have a gray hair on his head
yeah alot of ppl dye their grey hair for some reason
And fit
The world .moved in....never
Think about..others....ways of
No mention of "Diverse committees of local, national and international surf clubs and NGOs are working together with individual community leaders here to guarantee the successful management of the Huanchaco World Surfing Reserve." Or that az
To add, we lived in Huanchaco for 5 years and would still be living there but for family obligations.
Oh. They work so hard for this evil world.
This boats are so buoyant and superior over motorboat that you can see at 8:46 how they're stuffed with natural and sustainable styrofoam.
Look, I have nothing against tradition, as long as you don't make b**ch out of logic.
Things become obsolete. "Adapt or die." - Moneyball
I'm more than happy to fix issue that I or my lifestyle may have cause, say climate change, by reducing my consumption of oil, coal, meat, etc. But I will not fix progress, say farm-fishing destroying livelihood of these fishermen.
After this doc greedy businessman will rush there to see the business potential.
I feel like the orginal natives boated from South Pacific somehow too many similarities not an expert