Yasir Salih - Maldives My Islands

Diving poppers have thinner faces and a slimmer body structure. The popping face will be angled slightly upward. This enables […]

Top bait for Maldivian fishermen: silver sprat

During the early 1990s, my uncle Fikreebe would bring home these little fish, called locally as rehi—the silver sprat. My

The marine biodiversity and ecosystem include a wide range of organisms, from minute animals such as most zooplankton and phytoplankton

If we are new to popping or have seen a lot of them on the market, some lures might be

One day in 2011, I hurried to reach the harbor of our island, Fuvahmulah. It was a beautiful day on

It was a lovely day on Thoondu, Fuvahmulah’s northern beach, some 30 years ago. An event called maahibun, which marks

There have been several shark attacks on our bait or catches while we are fishing for yellowfin tuna off the

There are a lot of reasons why the Maldives’ marine biodiversity is unique. Underwater life in the Maldives is special