Wilder Fernández has caught four good-sized fish in the murky waters of a small bay north of Lake Maracaibo.
The contents of his net will serve as dinner for his small team before they set out to go fishing again in the evening.
But this daily task is a job he has recently become scared of doing.
After 13 years as a fisherman, Mr Fernández confesses that he now fears his job could turn lethal.
He is afraid he could die in these waters not at the hands of a night-time attacker - a threat fishermen like him encountered in the past - but rather, killed in a strike launched by a foreign power.
