Once There Was a Bridge of Fish
Turkey - 09 Oct 13
Istanbul—poised between Asia and Europe, a gateway to East and West, a crossroads of stories and histories—is a city with great symbolic potential. It is also a city facing a sea full of fish, the Bosphorous, long a source of food for its inhabitants. According to legend, when shoals of fish used to migrate from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea to reproduce, it was possible to walk from Europe to Asia across their backs. Even today, this barely 31-kilometer-long strait is fished by over 2,000 fishers, as well as those employed by the big fishing companies based in the Sea of Marmara.
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