Kinship and debt; The social organization of Bugis migration and fish marketing at Lake Lindu, Central Sulawesi

23 In the effort to maintain.their income in the face of the ever more meagre catches to be gained from the receding lake during this drought, fishermen were using gil1 nets with smaller Kinship and debt client (anaq guru) of the original pioneer of the second contingent, Tukang Sattu. [...]despite his physical absence from Lindu, Sattu has continued to sponsor the marketing of the primary product that has been the focus of the settlement of the Bugis at Lindu since their very first appearance as migrants in the fifties. [...]the Regency Fisheries Office, after issujng numerous warnings to the fishermen to use nets of increased mesh size and twice sending teams up to the lake to confiscate the offending nets, was compelled to prohibit al1 fishing except for domestic consumption at the lake. . [...]most often these goods have been paid in advance from the proceeds of earlier trips, rendering the women who supply dried salted fish indebted to these marketers. [...]the female marketers of dried salted fish ensure their con 30 The practice of selling dried salted fish according to their number rather than according to their weight was especially prevalent during the drought induced by El Nio, when supplies of fish available for salting were scarce. 3l For a short time one man of the fourth contingent, who had taken up residence in an abandoned house in the Tomado shore community, also received dried salted fish from throughout , the Lindu area.