Fisher's New Year festival held on Iran's Qeshm Island

Fisher's New Year, also called Nowruze Sayyad Day by locals, is celebrated on July 18 on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, southern Iran. As fishing is a major part of the island’s life and as different seasons and periods are defined according to its cycles, unlike other parts of Iran which celebrate Nowruz in late March, local people in the southern islands celebrate their new year at the beginning of the main fishing season in late July. (IRNA photos/Asghar Besharati).