Likened to a giant armor-plated turtle because the tin roofs are so tightly packed together, Migingo Island is considered one of the most crowded outcrops in the worldThe stone-capped island, which is barely half the size of a football pitch at 0.49 acres, is located on the north eastern side of Lake Victoria and sits on the the border between Uganda and KenyaIn a bid to find out what this crowded isle is like, Dubai-based filmmaker Joe Hattab journeyed there and spent a night with localsIn a short film about his time there, Hattab explains that there are more than 1,000 people living there and ‘it’s very small’One of the filmmaker’s ports of call on the Migingo is the fishing docks, where he sees the fishermen in actionTo get to Migingo, Hattab took a flight to Nairobi in Kenya. From there, he journeyed by car for around six hours to a small town called Kisumu, which sits on the shores of Lake Victoria. The final leg of the journey, saw Hattab hop in a boat to Migingo

In one small supermarket, where alcohol and soft drinks are for sale, he finds the vendor playing music and using a makeshift DJ deckWith it getting late, Hattab follows his guide to a fisherman’s house, where he is given a bed for the night. He reveals that the tin shack is hanging over the ocean and the sound of the water lapping is very loud

The filmmaker explains that many people flock to the crowded island for the Nile perch, which is ‘exported for millions of dollars’Migingo has become an increasingly popular place to fish as it is so remote, with the population swelling from around 130 in 2009 to more than 1,000 todayHattab notes that the price of Nile perch has ‘increased by 50 per cent in recent years and is estimated at $300 per kilogram in international markets’While there is no word on what happened to Hattab’s boat, he manages to get a ride off Migingo and he thanks the locals for his time there