Fins

“When someone comes in and offers you €500 for a few kilos of shark fin why would you say no?”

Enticed by significant short-term rewards, often more than 10x their monthly earnings, targeting sharks makes sense for a lot of fishermen throughout East Africa.

A dangerous and environmentally damaging practice built to fulfil the demands of the shark fin soup industry, where a bowl can cost upwards of €150, shark finning is driving massive overexploitation of shark populations globally leading to species extinction and widescale ecosystem collapse.

And when the sharks are gone, the ecosystems have crumbled, and the fish have vanished these businesses simply move onto the next area and leave the fishermen and their families with nothing.

I had never seen a species like this Bowmouth Shark Ray before. Like an impossible cross between a shark and a ray it seemed perfectly adapted to the muddy depths in which it lived. And I will likely never see another example of this Critically Endan

While many sharks need to continuously swim in order to breathe, this is not true for all species, and many in fact are happy to remain motionless on the bottom actively pumping water over their gills. But this ability to breathe without moving has b

The nets do not discriminate, and for species like this Green Turtle that need to surface to breathe, entanglement is almost always a death sentence. Thrashing and flailing it simply became more and more entangled in the net until eventually it drown

Trapped in the net, able to breathe yet unable to escape, it may have spent days pinned here. There is no quick death, no drowning, no release.

Instead, it's final hours are spent panicked, twisting, and turning, yet never escaping until it is slowly hauled to the surface. If it is lucky a machete will be driven into its head before its fins are removed and if it is unlucky, it will be finne

Fins

“When someone comes in and offers you €500 for a few kilos of shark fin why would you say no?” Enticed by significant short-term rewards, often more than 10x their monthly earnings, targeting sharks makes sense for a lot of fishermen throughout East Africa.

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“When someone comes in and offers you €500 for a few kilos of shark fin why would you say no?”

Enticed by significant short-term rewards, often more than 10x their monthly earnings, targeting sharks makes sense for a lot of fishermen throughout East Africa.