A fisherman wades barefoot through breaking waves at Borollus Lake (Buhayrat Al-Burullus), Kafr El Sheikh, pushing a small improvised rowing boat covered with plastic sacking and fitted with wooden oars, with a child seated inside. In the foreground, a large drag net (seine net) fitted with yellow float buoys and a colored rope line is being hauled back to shore, a traditional collective fishing method used by local communities on Egypt's northern Mediterranean coastal lakes. Borollus Lake is one of Egypt's largest brackish coastal lakes, supporting generations of small-scale artisanal fishermen along the Nile Delta coastline.