These illustrations show the Portuguese artisanal fishing called "Arte Xávega". Arte Xávega is an artisan fishing technique with centuries of tradition practised along several coastal communities in the Portuguese Atlantic coast. It is a seine fishing, a technique that allows fish to be caught by encircling them with a net.  In the past, the hauling of the net was done by animals or even solely by men. Nowadays it’s done with the help of a tractor.