ABSTRACT
San Andres barrio is an old, traditional fishing community located along the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines, one of the most important and diverse marine ecological zones in the world. Personification metaphors also emerged when informants spoke of animals’ lives. The general tendency to view climate and weather as beyond human control may stem from this underlying model of human-nature relations. During the warm months, fishermen would net different species of schooling fish, the migrations of which they could usually predict depending on the month. Fishermen also timed their capital-intensive fishing expeditions with phases of the moon. Fishermen need expert knowledge of seasonal winds, storm and weather patterns, and lunar cycles in their fishing activities. Many changes in annual seasonal patterns were noted by fishermen and other locals. The climate and the earth have a human-like life cycle with an end.
