Since that day in 2015, he's been a full-time pole-and-line fisherman roving the Maldives' 26 ring-shaped atolls while earning a highly-competitive salary. “Youths are the future of our fishing ...

says Ali Shameen, a native Maldivian whose fisherman father taught him how to navigate using stars as a guide, and who later became the resident astronomer at Anantara Kihavah, in Baa Atoll.