Abdul Rahim Baloch, the Gwadar Development Authority’s deputy environment director, says fighting in the Gulf may have caused it. But it is not just this proximity to oil that makes waters around the port – and local fishers – extremely vulnerable to ecological emergencies.“ Fishers blocked from the sea In Gwadar, fishers socialise every day at the raised, open platforms that dot its coast. But displacement is not the only impact to local fishers following Gwadar port’s development. Another concern relates to the 2017 construction of the US$168 million Eastbay Expressway, which connects Gwadar port to the Makran coastal highway, and thus to on Karachi.