Fishing for a family atmosphere

Lin Youhui is revered as the "barefoot Santa" by members of the Chinese People's Armed Police frontier defense division in Sansha, Yongxing Island.

The 70-something fisherman regularly wades waist-deep and barefoot into the coastal waters to catch sea creatures, from oysters to lobsters, with his bare hands.

He loads his catch, usually eight to 10 kilograms, onto his three-wheeler and sells it to the division "for next to nothing", said Yang Xiaolong, 33, the division's deputy director.