Issue 2025.02

Full Impact

Atlantic Ocean A requiem shark caught as “accidental” bycatch being hauled onto a Spanish longline fishing vessel to be sold to Asian markets. Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XC50-230mm f4.5-6.7 OIS II. Exposure: 1/550 sec., f/5.2, ISO 500.

↑ Atlantic Ocean A requiem shark caught as “accidental” bycatch being hauled onto a Spanish longline fishing vessel to be sold to Asian markets. Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XC50-230mm f4.5-6.7 OIS II. Exposure: 1/550 sec., f/5.2, ISO 500.

Documenting Sharks in Danger

Words and Image by Tommy Trenchard

I captured this image during a research expedition by the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to document the bycatch of sharks in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Unwanted bycatch is typically discarded by commercial fishing boats targeting a different species, but sharks as bycatch are kept and sold, commanding a high commercial market price in primarily Asian markets.

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