 Duano' people are also categorized as Orang Laut (sea people) or migratory fishermen; a group that includes the Urak Lawoi’ people and Moken people of the northern region.Among the Orang lauts they are counted only by the peculiarities of the way of life, and so they are a completely separate ethnic group with their own language, culture, self-consciousness and economic complexities, to of which they themselves deny that they belonged to the Orang laut.With their normadic boat lifestyle, their livelihood is almost exclusively based on fishing, and collecting shellfish and crustaceans by using mud-boards.