In pictures: Brazil's fishermen


Tackling change

"Tourism doesn't have to destroy the traditional way of life," says Flor de Liz Romero.

"When we met the fishermen for the first time, they thought that we wanted to take their boats off from the beach to make way for tourists.

"It took us a lot of persuasion to make them understand that we wanted to do exactly the opposite."

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