Jeff Rotman / Common Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) caught in gill net, Huatabampo, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Pacific Ocean

Jeff Rotman / Common Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) silhouette of one caught in gill net, Huatabampo, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Pacific Ocean

Jeff Rotman / Common Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) silhouette of one caught in gill net, Huatabampo, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Pacific Ocean

Jeff Rotman / Common Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) caught on gill net being hauled up onto boat, Huatabampo, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Pacific Ocean. Model released. Model released.

Jeff Rotman / Common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) severed fin being held up by gill net fisherman, Huatabampo, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Pacific Ocean Model released.

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Crew on the pelagic trawler 'Charisma' landing a small catch of mackerel, Shetland Isles, Scotland, UK, October 2011 Model Release available. 2020VISION Exhibition. 2020VISION Book Plate. Did you know...

Jeff Rotman / Yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea) caught in an overflowing dragger fishing net. Stellwagon Bank, New England, USA, Atlantic Ocean, October

Juergen Freund / Hook and line fishermen in dugout canoe and self made goggles catching a coral grouper for growing on in cage for the Live reef fish trade, Wakatobi, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of a seaweed farmer tending his crop, growing agar-agar for processing into carageenan (gelatinous extracts used as binder for food or product) Philippines, May 2009

Juergen Freund / Jewelmer Pearlfarm workers clean each pearl oyster regularly taking off barnacles and anything that grows on the shell, Philippines, April 2010

Juergen Freund / Jewelmer Pearlfarm, Pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima) in hanging cage, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009

Juergen Freund / Jewelmer Pearlfarm, newly cleaned Pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima) hanging in nets from rafts waiting to be relocated to open sea, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009