Waters

A stone wall two kilometres long, built by hand straight across a sea bay. Six to eight centuries ago Hawaiians walled off a piece of the…

A forest that stands in water for half the year. Here fishermen learned to count the Amazon's greatest fish by its breaths — and in eight…

A sea that stands under ice for half the year. For centuries the Pomors lived by it — on salmon, navaga and herring — and sailed…

A river where fish have been taken with cormorants for thirteen centuries. Six masters still serve the Imperial Household.

A labyrinth of nets set across the tuna's road off the coast of Cádiz. The Phoenicians devised it three thousand years ago, and it still works…

Shallow water where the cold Labrador Current meets the Gulf Stream. For five centuries it was called inexhaustible. It closed in 1992 and opened again in…

Between Java and Bali lie two and a half kilometres of water and a current that carries a boat faster than a man runs. Indonesia's second-largest…

The river that fed half of Europe on sturgeon, and the delta where even roach is now forbidden.

The only sea on earth without shores. Its boundaries are four currents, and here the European eel is born.

For a thousand years the cod of the Barents Sea has come here to spawn each January. The life of the islands is still counted by…