A Pesca: Commercial Fishing in Northeastern Brazil

Since 2008, California photographer Barron Bixler has been documenting life in a small but important fishing community in Alagoas, Brazil. Faced with declining fish, shrimp and lobster populations, high unemployment and the possible destruction of its protected mangrove forests, the men and women of this community are caught somewhere between a relatively traditional way of life and Brazil's race to become an economic superpower.