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  • Fish carcasses Vigo, Spain in the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and is  home to the first fish auction.<br />
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Swordfish and sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. Both species are down to 10 percent of their historic numbers. One of the world’s busiest seafood ports, Vigo auctions half a million tons of fish daily. As Europe’s largest fishing nation, Spain’s people consume 80 pounds of seafood per capita, 50 per cent higher than Europe’s average. Lower fish stocks have caused a 20-year decline in Spain’s catch.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish to be transported to China and Hong Kong.    <br />
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These cages are located just off the coast of Bimi, Indonesia. Initially reef fish only came from the South China Sea, but transport developed and fish now come from all over S.E. Asia. The fish are often used for celebratory meals in Hong Kong, but in Guangzhou the fish are so cheap and the apartments are so small that many people eat out. And the stereotype is that there is lots of food left on the table.  Often a fish is popular because of its color more than its taste.
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  • Dried fish sold at the Guangzhou Fish Market.<br />
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It can be crumbled straight into soup or stir fry. Dried smelt can also be added to stir fries after being steamed, while anchovies can be deep fried and munched as a crispy snack.
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  • A customer holding a large fish at the Guangzhou Fish Market.<br />
Tourists and locals shop from vendors who line their stalls with fresh catch at one of the largest fish markets in the world.
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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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  • Fish are unloaded at the world's largest biomass fish shipping port.<br />
A swordfish is brought ashore in Vigo, Spain, one of the busiest seafood ports, handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. <br />
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Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies. <br />
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Yet Spain’s—and Europe’s—appetite for fish keeps growing. The EU is the world’s largest market, taking in 40 percent of all imported fish, with a large chunk coming from developing countries. Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.
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  • A customer at a live reef fish restaurant in Guangzhou where a variety of large fish swim in tank behind her.<br />
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China consumes the largest quantity of seafood in the world and consequently, imports the most. China’s seafood consumption accounts for 45% of the global volume, meaning 65 million tons out of 144 million tons. <br />
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Chinese prefer fresh, live fish to processed fish in a factory.
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  • Workers lift a frozen coelacanth fish that is being transported to a museum. Coelacanths are the fossil fish that bridge the gap between fish and the mammals that left the sea to walk on land.  Their fins become legs.<br />
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70 million years old, scientists previously considered the fish long extinct. In 1938, however, a fishing trawler brought up a live specimen. Since then more than 100 living coelacanths, remarkably unchanged since the Cretaceous period, have been caught off the coast of South Africa.<br />
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The coelacanth is classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union (also known as the IUCN), an international organization that maintains a global list of vulnerable and endangered species called the Red List. A vulnerable classification means that the species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future.
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  • The main fish market street in Petropavlovsk sells Pacific Steelhead, which has been on the Russian Red Book of endangered species since 1983. Even though military, police, and government officials charge through this street all day long, and it is illegal, this endangered salmon is sold with impunity.
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  • Senevisa fish processing plant in Dakar processes cuttlefish brought in from artisanal fishermen. The local market consumes only three percent of the production of this plant.<br />
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Artesianal fishermen sell products like octopus, squid and cuttlefish. The prime fish and cuttlefish leave this plant in Styrofoam fresh packs at 5pm in Dakar and are at the Paris Orly airport at 6am.<br />
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Fish follows the money – If the Japanese pay the most for cuttlefish then it is shipped there overnight. Senevisa is the largest trawler/fish exporter working out of Senegal.
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  • Fish are laid out to dry in a fisherman’s village right at the edge of the ocean in St. Louis, Senegal.  Atlantic bumpers are a crucial food source in Africa.<br />
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Also known as Atlantic Carangid, Bumper, Goggle-eye, Little Bumper, Pacific Bumper, Plato, Rooter, Spanish Mackerel, Trevally, Yellowtail, Yellowtail Bumper.<br />
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Found singly, over soft bottoms, of the continental shelf, or in schools, near the surface of estuaries and coastal lagoons.<br />
They feed on cephalopods, detritus, small fish, and zooplankton.
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  • Fish plant worker in a fish processing plant in Oktyabrski, Kamchatka, the town where Soviets built two of the largest fish plants in Russia.
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  • A workers hangs onto a rope at a fish plant in Oktyabrsky.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry fish heads. They salvage waste from fish factories.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are also without a doubt among the purest in the world.
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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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  • Fish carcasses at Vigo, the largest biomass fish in shipping port in the world.<br />
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 Sharks are sprayed with water as they are being processed for food. Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, ocean-fairing workers process the catch while onboard. The captain of this trawler is Francisco who worked in Newfoundland before cod was all fished out.  His factory trawler flies a Senegalese flag and can hold 140 tons of fish/Octopus which usually fills the boat in about 21 days at sea.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, ocean-fairing workers process the catch while onboard. The captain of this trawler is Francisco who worked in Newfoundland before cod was all fished out. His factory trawler flies a Senegalese flag and can hold 140 tons of fish/Octopus which usually fills the boat in about 21 days at sea.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, ocean-fairing workers process the catch while onboard. The captain of this trawler is Francisco who worked in Newfoundland before cod was all fished out. His factory trawler flies a Senegalese flag and can hold 140 tons of fish/Octopus which usually fills the boat in about 21 days at sea.
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  • Vigo, Spain has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and it is the home of the first fish auction.  Sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. The species is down to 10 percent of historic numbers.
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  • A fish is displayed on a plate inside a restaurant window.<br />
Spain is virtually surrounded by the sea and eating fish and shellfish has been at the heart of Spanish cuisine for millennia. In fact, Spain trails only Japan in fish consumption per capita.
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  • A street in Zhapo is reflected in a  restaurant fish tank that attracts people to select a fresh fish for dinner. <br />
Overfishing stresses aquatic populations of reef fish.
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  • Sweeper fish swarm in the waters off of Banta Island in Indonesia. The global trade in live reef fish may top a billion dollars a year with many species captured by cyanide or traps. Use of dynamite to kill reef fish increases the toll taken by the live trade.
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  • A seafood restaurant in Guangzhou serves reef fish that swim in an aquarium in the dining area for patrons to see the fresh fish.
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  • A salmon swims up a 450 foot fish ladder to spawn in a fish hatchery.
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  • Workers unload and weigh fish on the dock of a cannery. Petersburg port has the largest home-based halibut fleet in Southeast Alaska.
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  • A brown bear catches a salmon fish in Kuril Lake. Bears need to eat about 40 fish a day to put on weight to make it through the winter.
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  • Woman in fish processing plant is:<br />
Nadezhda.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Workers process sharks that are stacked onto pallets after processing. Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<br />
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Fish is sent all over Spain and abroad to countries like Portugal, Italy, France and other more distant markets including Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Sharks are stacked onto pallets after processing. Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<br />
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Fish is sent all over Spain and abroad to countries like Portugal, Italy, France and other more distant markets including Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Swordfish are stacked onto pallets after processing. Fish is sent all over Spain and abroad to countries like Portugal, Italy, France and other more distant markets including Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies.<br />
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Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.<br />
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Swordfish are wrapped in plastic on pallets.
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  • Fish carcasses dry in the sun on the coast of 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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  • A ray fish ashore in a beach settlement in Saint Louis, Senegal.<br />
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Stingrays are considered a type of fish that is related to sharks. They are found in the warm and temperate waters all over the world. Stingrays have a flat, gray to the darkish brown body and a long tail with a poisonous stinger on their end. Stingray is a popular seafood dish in many parts of the world.
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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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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish to be transported to China and Hong Kong. The nets capture a variety of fish and marine life extracted from the ocean.
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  • A scientist studies salmon fry or young fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Fish inspectors wade in shallow water are in pursuit of salmon poachers.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman watches tv for entertainment while taking a break in the galley.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, fishermen take a break in the galley while processing the crew's catch.<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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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman wields a sharp knife to remove the fin from a shark. Fish are caught and processed onboard while out working for weeks at a time.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<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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  • A  young boy poses beside a pallet of sharks in Vigo which has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Swordfish and tuna are the greatest catches and are in decline from overfishing.
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  • David Colson and his crew pull mullet out of their nets onto their airboat at the base of the Suwannee River in the Gulf of Mexico. They shine a light onto the water to attract the fish, then drive in circles dropping their net to trap the confused fish.
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  • David Colson and his crew pull mullet out of their nets onto their airboat at the base of the Suwannee River in the Gulf of Mexico. They shine a light onto the water to attract the fish, then drive in circles dropping their net to trap the confused fish.
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  • David Colson and his crew pull mullet out of their nets onto their airboat at the base of the Suwannee River in the Gulf of Mexico.  They shine a light onto the water to attract the fish, then drive in circles dropping their net to trap the confused fish.
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  • Icy water flies as a brown bear catches a salmon fish in Kuril Lake. Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears in the world, with almost 15,000 on the Russian peninsula.
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  • A brown bear, also known as a grizzly, feasts on sockeye salmon, which is a fundamental drama in Kamchatka’s still largely intact ecosystem. <br />
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Salmon—pink, chum, sockeye, coho, chinook, and masu—flood the waters that typically solitary brown bears crowd together to feed at Kuril Lake. Bears need to eat about 40 fish a day to put on weight to make it through the winter.<br />
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Brown bears in Kamchatka can be 7 to 9 feet in length and weigh 700-800 pounds. Species: U. arctic Genus:Ursus<br />
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Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears in the world, with almost 15,000 on the Russian peninsula.
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  • David Colson and a crew load up a boat with nets and gear for mullet fish in the Gulf of Mexico. His family and dog watch him head to for the evening where they fish at night.
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  • A Bald Eagle in flight catches a fish with its talons. Their wingspans measure 7½ ft. The average weight is 10-12 pounds, some weigh up to 16 pounds. Bald Eagles can pick up and fly off with a fish or other prey items that weigh 4-5 pounds, any more weight than that is too heavy and they will stall out and crash.
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  • Salmon dries on racks before being smoked with alder at a Native Alaskan fish camp near Sitka. The catch will help supplement traditional food supplies through winter months.
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  • Clown fish seeks refuge among sea anemone tentacles.
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  • Bloodied baby shark fish carcasses are caught and transported to shore on a factory trawler in Senegal.<br />
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Sharks are in decline from overfishing.
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  • A chef prepares a celebratory meal of whole reef fish. 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.<br />
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From large marine mammals such as dolphins and porpoises to an array of fishes, crustaceans and coral species, the range of sea-life found in Hong Kong’s waters is as captivating as it is diverse. But for many of the approximately 6,000 species that comprise the territory’s marine ecosystem, life is getting harder year after year. Affected by overfishing, heavy boat traffic, various forms of pollution, and habitat loss caused by coastal development, a growing number of creatures that once boasted healthy populations are now classified as vulnerable or endangered
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  • Fuselier fish that aggregate on the east coast of Komodo are members of the Caesionidae family. Distributed in the Indo-West Pacific water, they are marine fishes that inhabit mostly on coral reefs. Fusiliers can be recognized by their protractile small mouth and deeply forked caudal fin.
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  • Fuselier fish that aggregate on the east coast of Komodo are members of the Caesionidae family. Distributed in the Indo-West Pacific water, they are marine fishes that inhabit mostly on coral reefs. Fusiliers can be recognized by their protractile small mouth and deeply forked caudal fin.
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  • Children collect small fish near Baseco Beach at the north tip of the Baseco slum area in Manila, Luzon, Phillipines. This beach is covered with trash from the Pasig river and other sources. Trash is visible on all edges of Manila bay but it is particularly bad here.<br />
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The Pasig River  runs through metro Manila and empties into Manila Bay at Baseco. The river carries 63,700 tons of plastic waste annually into Manila Bay. Sixty percent of all waste in Manila Bay is plastic.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman removes the fin from a shark while processing the days catch onboard the boat.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • A pair of cuttlefish in a Chinese restaurant tank where customers are attracted to see the fresh fish for a dinner.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<br />
A worker carries a shark on a hook through the facility.
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  • Truckloads of rotting fish carcasses are sold to local markets in Africa after meatier parts of the fish are processed for European markets.
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  • In villages between Lake Victoria and the Serengeti Ecosystem, truckloads of rotting fish carcasses are driven to the local markets and sold. <br />
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The filets were cut off in the processing plants in Musoma and shipped to Europe overnight, and Africans get only the bones. <br />
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This is a cotton production region and these people have just sold their crops.  They have money to buy good food, but don’t have the option to buy their own fish from their own lakes.
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  • Women removing the scales from red mullet at a fish processing plant.
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  • Children catch tiny fish in a stream that comes from Manila Bay, goes through a fish hatchery, and comes out a slightly cleaner before it flows back into the bay. This is one of the few places I could take underwater photographs because the hatchery filters the water. A lingering memory from this trip will be that all our garbage goes SOMEWHERE and in the Philippines it goes to the most marginalized areas to sort, de-label and pile up creating a hazard.
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  • El Molo fishermen catch a fish from Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen catch a fish from Lake Turkana.
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  • An African fish eagle.
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  • Biologist with spotted Leporinus fish in his hand, the help looks on.
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  • A young boy catches a fish on a hook at twilight near the mouth of the Suwannee River and Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Fish sandwich and fries at Scotty's in Coconut Grove.
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  • A fish tank separates patrons from the kitchen at a restaurant on East Nanjing Road, a busy shopping area in Shanghai.
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  • A shark is processed in the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world where the Spanish shop for coveted seafood.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Dried shark fins sold at the Guangzhou Fish Market.<br />
Shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, a delicacy once prepared exclusively for the Chinese emperors and nobility. The cartilage from the fin is carefully dried and prepared, and used as an ingredient in a soup flavored with seafood or chicken broth and herbs.<br />
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The demand for shark-fin soup has rocketed. It is still associated with privilege and social rank - a bowl of soup can cost up to US$100 - but the explosive growth in the Chinese economy means that hundreds of millions of people can now afford this luxury. Many consider it de rigueur at important events such as weddings, birthdays, business banquets and during Chinese New Year celebrations.
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  • Sweeper fish and diver in the pristine waters off of Banta Island which are rich with aquatic life. Divers come to explore a region where two oceans meet--the Indian and the Pacific.
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  • A man holds a yellow eye fish he caught off of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Black bear at Margaret Creek feeding on salmon next to a  fish ladder.
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  • A fish caught in Lake Turkana.
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  • Fish caught in Lake Turkana.
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  • Scientists don equipment and carry nets to study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • A man and boy with caught silver salmon fish on Thorne Bay.
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  • Catching fish in Lake Turkana.
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  • A fish caught in Lake Turkana.
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  • A man catches a fish on Ferguson Gulf in the Lake Turkana area of Kenya.
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  • A common sunstar fish or Crossaster papposus is exposed at low tide in a rich intertidal zone on Moser Island in Alaska's Southeast. It normally has nine or ten arms but can have many more. They have a piny texture and pray on other sea stars, sea urchins, snails, cucumbers and sea anemones.
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  • A fish being weighed in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • Fish being carried from Lake Turkana.
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  • A boy with a caught fish on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A fish being weighed in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • Fish hang to dry on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A woman hangs fish to dry on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Children play atop a truckload of dried fish in the village of Selicho.
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  • A haul of fish in port at Kayar.
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  • Fish await further processing in oceanside village of Zhapo.
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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • Fish carcasses in Lake Turkana.
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  • An El Molo woman holds a fish.
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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 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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