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  • Weathered boats, vital to life on the Magdalen Islands, in dry dock.
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  • Fishing boats on the waters off of Pulau Misa, which is known for divers who capture fish for market in Indonesia. <br />
A young boy glances on the end of a colorful pirogue which is traditional in the region.<br />
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Pulau is an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.
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  • Fishing boats in the waters near Pulau Misa, an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.
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  • Flat bottom boats tied at a dock on a foggy morning at Stephen Foster State Park west entrance to Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
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  • A dog, boats, and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A dog, boats, and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Mohanis fishermen and cargo rivermen  use flat bottom boats.
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  • Houses and boats in harbor of fishing village on Baranof Island.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Crew members from a family fishing operation land approximately 1,000 Coho salmon in the boat from a purse seine in waters near Craig, Alaska.<br />
Alaska’s fisheries are some of the richest in the world, with fishermen harvesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of salmon, crab, herring, halibut, pollock, and groundfish every year. However, overfishing, exploitation, and poor fisheries management in the ‘40s and ‘50s took a heavy toll on the industry. The state adopted drastic measures that saved the fishing industry from collapse. Tough times again hit the fishermen in the 1970s as the number of boats grew and increasingly efficient gear depleted catch levels to record lows.<br />
Permit systems and reserves helped the commercial industry recover in the late ‘70s—a trend that has continued to the present because of cooperation between scientists and fishermen.<br />
Fishermen and loggers rank in the top two spots for most dangerous jobs. Both are common lines of work for people in the Alaskan outdoors. Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking fatal occupational injuries in 1980, there were 4,547 fatal work injuries in 2010, and fatality rates of some occupations remain alarmingly high.
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  • Crew members refer to this maneuver as the  "fish walk" when they slide across a boat's deck to push pink salmon into the ice storage area. The fishermen were seining in the waters in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Alaska’s fisheries are some of the richest in the world, with fishermen harvesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of salmon, crab, herring, halibut, pollock, and groundfish every year. However, overfishing, exploitation, and poor fisheries management in the ‘40s and ‘50s took a heavy toll on the industry. The state adopted drastic measures that saved the fishing industry from collapse. Tough times again hit the fishermen in the 1970s as the number of boats grew and increasingly efficient gear depleted catch levels to record lows.<br />
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Permit systems and reserves helped the commercial industry recover in the late ‘70s—a trend that has continued to the present because of cooperation between scientists and fishermen.
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  • A young boy paddles a tortora reed boat through the surf near a little village of Huanchaco located north of Lima.  The caballitos, or "little horses," are traditional hand-made boats used by fishermen in the region.
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  • A hand made boat outside Selicho fishing village on Lake Turkana, Kenya. The Dasenech thought fishing was a poor man's activity thru out their history, but with the droughts and difficulties with pastoralism in this area... more and more are turning to fishing. Some of the fish caught are salted and packed onto trucks to DR Congo.
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  • A fisherman ties up his boat on the coast of Valparaiso where other brightly painted fishing boat are dwarfed by freighters and battleships. The city of Valparaiso is a busy seaport located west of Santiago.
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  • In the shadow of huge cargo ships, freighters and battleships, a Valparaiso fisherman paints his boat. The primary gateway for Chile's thriving export business, ships are loaded with copper, fruit, wine and timber to ports worldwide.
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  • Fishermen mend nets aboard a boat that is equipped with lights that attract squid.<br />
Asian markets demand fresh fish that puts great pressure on the aquatic populations.
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  • Chinese workers gather to talk on a fishing boat at port of Zhapo.
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  • This is the Ust Bolsheretsk area at the height of fishing season along the Bolshaya river.  These fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of the net and then bring it around full circle in the river to cinch in the fish. The net is then dumped into small boats that have nets laid in them that the crane uses to pick them up and dump them into trucks that go to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk.  This brigade is working in this area that is south of Oktyabrski.
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  • A commercial fishing boat loaded with nets departs in calm waters through Frederick Sound in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Father and daughter share a tender moment on their boat which is home for the family during fishing season off the coast of Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Southeast. When not the fishing for salmon, the family lives on nearby Marble Island and the children are home schooled.<br />
Alaska’s largest and most valuable fisheries target salmon, pollock, crab, herring, halibut, shrimp, sablefish, and Pacific cod.<br />
The total value of Alaska’s commercial fisheries is $1.5 billion for the fishermen, with a wholesale value of $3.6 billion. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy. Fisheries management in Alaska is based on scientific assessments and monitoring of harvested populations and is regarded as a model of successful natural resource stewardship.
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  • Rifat Pinarbas readies his nets on the family fishing boat.
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  • Fishermen on an octopus processing factory boat.<br />
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Almost 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited, overexploited or depleted, according to the UN.
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  • A fisheries trawler coming into port. Overfishing is putting a strain on many species as these working boats net and haul large quantities out of the ocean faster than fish can recover.
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  • Boatloads of Senegalese fishermen return from setting nets all night.The nation’s fleet of small boats, unregulated until recently, hauls in 80 percent of the catch and supplies about 60 percent of the export market. Senegal’s commercial vessels, foreign fleets from Europe and Asia, and pirate fishing boats add to the pressure; the country’s annual harvest declined.
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  • Deng Xiaoping’s strategy after Tiananmen was to buy off the people by means of economic growth. Part of that growth is to bulldoze the old buildings and make gleaming new high-rise condos for the newly affluent to live in. Chinese prefer to buy into a brand new condo. Newspapers advertise homes for sale by owners as “used.” Buildings look good when they go up, but they will only look good for 20 years or so.
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  • This is a fisherman village right at the edge of the ocean in St. Louis, Senegal.  The authorities have been trying to get rid of this community, but the fishing is the most important aspect of St. Louis and these folks have fought off the government. This time of year they fish at night and are so successful that they have decided amongst themselves to only have half the boats go out each day. The price of fish was incredibly low because there are so many and because these fishermen are so adept at exploiting the resource. Industrialized fishermen pay a license to fish, but then there is no limit for how much they can catch. The artesenal fishermen are not regulated in any way. 600,000 Senegalese participate in the fishing industry. Eighty percent of the fish caught are caught by artesinal fishermen.
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  • A sea of orange boats float on the placid waters of the Rogue River. Rafters join some 100,000 other day trippers who paddle, float, or kayak the river each year. <br />
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Nightfall brings tranquility; only a few lucky winners of BLN's annual lottery can continue into the Wild and Scenic portion s it rushes toward the Pacific Ocean near Gold Beach, Oregon.
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  • A boat on the Detroit River against the skyline of Windsor, Canada.
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  • A boat motors past Stiltsville: abandoned homes on stilts.
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  • An oyster fisherman in a boat watches a storm build over Cat Island in Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Boat leaves harbor on Baranof Island in Sitka.
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  • Living on a float house in a quiet bay, a woman drives a boat to Thorne Bay for supplies and to take her children to school on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • The crew of a Kenya Wildlife Service boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo locals moor a boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • A boat ferries Nyangatom tribespeople across the Omo River.
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  • Mangrove tree and roots along with stranded boat on a tidal flat.
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  • A young man waits to haul a cage of pearl oysters onto a boat.
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  • A man of the sea, Kornelios Arrianos once lay in this Roman-era stone sarcophagus, now in the Sinop Museum.  A merchant ship and a harbor boat decorate its side.
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  • Underwater view of swimmers and a boat at the surface of the ocean.
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  • Judy Hancock takes in the sights and sounds of the Suwannee River from a small boat.  For the past 15 years she has been an outspoken protector of the wetland s and its wildlife.
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  • Fish carcasses dry in the sun on a boat dock.<br />
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Pulau is an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.<br />
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Almost 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited, overexploited or depleted.
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  • Conservationists launch a boat to explore wilderness on a research trip in a remote part of the Tongass National Forest. Fog, rain and cloudy weather are characteristic of the region that receives over 200 inches of rain a year.
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  • A fishing boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • Boys pole a log boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • A boat driver's daughter helps fishermen at a salmon fishing camp.
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  • Commercials running on a screen on a boat on the river.
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  • Unloading a boat from a trailer to cross a flooded road.
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  • A hand made boat outside Selicho fishing village on Lake Turkana, Kenya. The Dasenech thought fishing was a poor man's activity thru out their history, but with the droughts and difficulties with pastoralism in this area... more and more are turning to fishing. Some of the fish caught are salted and packed onto trucks to DR Congo.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery. They fish on cloudy days when they can see the masses of jelly from their boats.  A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.
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  • A few cars make a traffic jam on a rainy afternoon at the main intersection in Coffman, Cove, Alaska, population 200.<br />
What began as a logging town on Prince of Wales Island is mostly made up of people who stayed on when the industry declined. Boats and off road vehicles are plentiful and a road connects the community to other parts of the island.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River south of the town of Oktyabrski where men make a fish camp out of a beached, ocean-going vessel.  They are not fishing on this day because it allows time for the fish to spawn, and indigenous communities up river in Kamchatka can fish in the area along the Bolshaya River. <br />
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Fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of a net and then bring it around full circle in the river to capture the fish. A net is  dumped into small boats that have small nets laid in them. A crane picks up the small nets and dumps them into trucks that take the fish to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk. If fishing was allowed every day in the mouths of these rivers just off the Kamchatka shelf, no salmon would get up river to spawn. There are two “passing days” each week when fishing is banned, so these fishermen hang out in their camp and do their laundry. Some fishermen come from as far as Ulan-Ude, which is on the border with Siberia. One of the fishermen in this photo is from PK, two are from Urilutsk, Siberia, and two are from Oktybrski.
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  • A beach and artisanal fishing community in Saint Louis, Sengegal.<br />
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A young woman stands by some of the brightly painted, traditional fishing boats called pirogues.
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  • Fishermen brave the waters in small, colorful, pirogues or handmade wooden boats that are traditional in Senegal.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.<br />
The village-based artisanal fisherfolk use traditional technology and small-sized boats. Their knowledge of marine ecology and fishing techniques is based on generations of experience.
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  • Senegalese fishermen empty their nets of a large haul of fish they caught on their colorful boats.
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  • Artisanal fishermen in colorful small boats work the waters off of Mbour in Senagal.
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  • Hauling in salmon from their boats at a fishing camp, coastal people called Nymylan are village dwellers and hang the catch to dry on racks for winter.
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  • An Australian woman boating across a flooded road.
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  • A silhouetted man push poles his boat away from shore into the St. Mary's River in Florida. Vibrant colors of sunset reflect in the water in the fading light.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga load their small boat with nets full of fish to sell to a seafood exporter.
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  • A worker at the Kwun Tong Wholesale Fish Market stretches after working long hours unloading a boat in a marina in Hong Kong. According to WWF figures, Hong Kong has the second-highest per-capita seafood consumption in Asia, and is the world’s eighth-largest seafood consumer.<br />
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Damaged by decades of human activity, Hong Kong’s rich marine ecosystem requires concerted conservation effort to recover and flourish.
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  • A long line fishermen works on the boat in Olafsvik.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • Scenes from the Bund – Including giant illuminated screen that shows commercials as it motors up and down the river. This screen is so bright that it throws a massive amount of light pollution into all of the condo buildings and fancy hotels along the Bund. There were so many complaints from wealthy building owners that the LED screen had to be parked in one spot rather than going up and down the river at night.
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  • Fishermen unload their catch of the day to sell at the fish market on the beach at San Andres. Women buyers bid on the fish, then load them to sell in Lima.
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  • Researchers who study brown bears navigate by boat through driving rain on the Unuk River in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. This is the "dry season," and the region receives more than two hundred inches of rain each year.<br />
Brown bears or grizzlies are prevalent in the Tongass, so there is interest in study of their behavior and range. A decline in the lower 48 states has heightened management concern and an increased interest in habitat-related studies in Alaska. <br />
Results show brown bears avoid clearcuts and are more often found in riparian old growth, wetland, and alpine/subalpine habitat because of more nutritious foraging and better cover.<br />
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The Unuk Study Area is part of Misty Fiords National Monument and classified as wilderness. Because of this, no helicopters are allowed, making primary access by boat since no roads exist. Located 100 km northeast of Ketchikan, the Unuk River, which means “Dream River” in the native Tlingit language, flows from the Canadian border to salt water. Although much of the main river channel is too deep and glacial for bears to fish, the river contains several clear tributaries with spawning salmon.
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  • A lone boat of fishermen trolls through Billy's Lake in early morning fog in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. West entrance of the swamp's open water is also the origin of the Suwanee River that flows into Florida to the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Cooking dinner involves creative thinking on a wilderness canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp. This outdoorsman stands on seat cushions taken from his boat to keep his feet dry while boiling potatoes over a campfire.<br />
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The Okefenokee Swamp is a deep bog of thick peat moss and fresh “blackwater” that is home to 440 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles, many of which are endangered. The 402,000-acre wetlands was designated a national wildlife refuge in 1937.
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  • Tribesmen Steer a boat across the remote Ituri River watershed deep in the Ituri Forest in DR Congo.
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  • A fisherman's catch lies on a boat in the sun on a Kayar beach in Senegal.
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  • A boat cuts through reflections of clouds in the placid waters of the St. Mary’s River in Southern Georgia. The St. Mary’s forms a division between Florida and Georgia as it flows east to the Atlantic Ocean out of the Okefenokee Swamp.
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  • Families gather for a boat ride and check a crab pot that also contained a common sunstar (Crossaster papposus) that feeds on crabs and other intertidal, marine creatures.
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  • A kayaker carries his boat to higher ground to explore the wilderness in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Tidal changes are extreme along islands in the Inside Passage.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks loaded with a boat and supplies as they pursue salmon poachers who are the greatest threat to salmon in Russia.
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  • Senegalese fishermen return from setting nets all night in their colorful pirogues. Locals who rely on fish as their protein stand in the water to help unload the boat of its catch. T<br />
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Foreign trawlers and an expanding fishmeal industry are increasingly threatening the livelihood of Senegalese fishermen, forcing many to migrate to Europe.
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  • Net fishermen untangle their catch onto the boat in the waters off of Mbour.
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  • Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon from the hatch of their fishing boat. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy.
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  • A fisheries trawler coming into port loaded with catch that is depleting the sea.<br />
With a warm upwelling and perfect nutrient conditions, the Senegal coast is the last of the wild west of fisheries.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga paddles his catch to sell to a seafood exporter in Tanzania.
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  • A long line fishermen is proud of his large catch.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • A fish tangled in a net on board a fishing vessel off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • Foreign factory trawlers at the port of Dakar are loaded with fish caught by artisanal fishermen. The EU brings in 350 million dollars a year for fish.
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  • Ocean spray on a fishing boar off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • The sea captain and workers fish off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands in Iceland.
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  • Sengalese fishermen entering and exiting the port at Dakar in small, colorful pirogues. <br />
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Foreign trawlers and an expanding fishmeal industry are increasingly threatening the livelihood of Senegalese fishermen, forcing many to migrate to Europe.
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  • Senegalese fishermen haul in nets loaded with fish. With competition intensifying to supply mostly European markets, fishing grounds off West Africa are going the way of Europe’s: toward depletion. These Senegalese, who had hoped to catch desirable export species such as shrimp or sole, will throw away the fish in their nets—wasting valuable protein for Africa.
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  • A boy waits inside the cabin while his father and friend fish in the waters off of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A boy proudly displays the salmon he caught when the family was fishing near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Two men use lung power to top off their inflatable raft.
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  • Tourists at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen.
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  • A morning commuter along Wicker and the Riverwalk.
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  • Stiltsville: abandoned homes on stilts off Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • Fishermen power through the fog and waters through Billy's Lake in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. West entrance of the swamp's open water is also the origin of the Suwanee River that flows into Florida to the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • A lone canoe is seen from the air in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The swamp's prairies are filled with a thick growth of aquatic plants where trails are cut for wilderness paddling trips.
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