Fishing Net Drive .

The riverine Itsekiri are fishermen first. The Forcados, the Escravos, the Benin estuary — that water has fed Iwere Land since before the Olu's first crown. But oil pollution, climate-shifted fish migration, and the rising cost of imported nylon mesh have made it harder every year for a fisherman to come back to the dock with a paying haul.

The Fishing Net Drive is the most targeted of our drives. We don't try to fix the river. We replace the broken nets, get the outboard motors back into service, and put ice and refrigeration in the dockside markets so what comes out of the water reaches a paying buyer before it spoils.

The first cycle pilots in Ogheye and Ogidigben — two riverine communities with established Itsekiri fishing cooperatives — and reports back on yield, income lift, and gear longevity before scaling.