Juergen Freund / Freshly caught fish laid out under the sun to dry for easier storage. Filipinos traditionally eat fried dried fish and rice everyday. Dried fish needs no refrigeration and can last a long time. Philip...

Jabruson / Sun-dried fish provides many families with a readily available supply of protein and a product to sell at local markets, Gamba, Gabon

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Wild mushrooms lying on reindeer moss after being gathered near a Selkup camp in the forest. They will be dried & stored for the winter. Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Indian Oil Sardine (Sardinella longiceps) harvest spread out by fisherman to be dried for three days and subsequently fed to Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) camels, Hawf Protected Area, Yemen

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Indian Oil Sardine (Sardinella longiceps) harvest spread out by fisherman to be dried for three days and subsequently fed to Dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius), Hawf Protected Area, Yemen

Juergen Freund / Dried sea cucumbers or beche-de-mer gathered from daily gleaning activities. Coastal communities are the main supplier of this high value Chinese delicacy. Green Island, Palawan, Philippines, April 20...

Juergen Freund / Dried sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) or beche-de-mer gathered from daily gleaning activities undergoing the drying process. Coastal communities are the main supplier of this high value Chinese delicacy...

Juergen Freund / Dried sharks' fins, scallops, and other marine products for sale in Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district, April 2009.

Juergen Freund / Dried seahorses, pipefishes, pegasus, and other marine products for sale in Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district, April 2009.

Pete Oxford / Market trader selling dried fruit and nuts, Djemaa el-Fna (the square), Marrakech, Morocco, June 2009

Petra Wegner / Girl providing bowl of dried food for Guinea Pigs in cage

Petra Wegner / Girl feeding Guinea Pigs in cage from bowl of dried food

Petra Wegner / Girl placing bowl of dried food in cage for two Guinea Pigs

Petra Wegner / Girl placing bowl of dried food in cage for two Guinea Pigs

Petra Wegner / Girl feeding Guinea Pigs in cage with dried food from bowl

Petra Wegner / Girl feeding Guinea Pigs in cage with dried food from bowl

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Table of traditional North Greenlandic foods: Greenland Halibut, Mattaq (Narwhal skin), eider duck eggs, dried narwhal meat, Arctic char, boiled seal meat & dried polar cod, Thule, Northwest Greenlan...

Aflo / Domestic cat reaching up towards dried fish {Felis catus} Japan

Stephen Dalton / Oriental cockroach (Blatta blatta) on dried pasta, UK

Juergen Freund / Dried blocks of Sinarapan / Tabios fish {Mistichthys luzonensis} the smallest edible fish in the world, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008

Gary K. Smith / Dried mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) for wild bird food

Juergen Freund / Dried and shrunken Sea cucumber {Bohadschia graeffei} formerly 1-2 feet long, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Juergen Freund / Dried and shrunken Sea cucumbers {Bohadschia graeffei} formerly 1-2 feet long, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Dried goods for sale at a market in Xizhou - a small Bai village about 20 km north of Dali - Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Antandroy woman smoke-drying fish. It has started to rain so these fish caught yesterday can not be sun-dried, Lavanono. Southern MADAGASCAR 2005

Pete Oxford / Antandroy woman smoke-drying fish. It has started to rain so these fish caught yesterday can not be sun-dried, Lavanono. Southern MADAGASCAR 2005

Juergen Freund / Filipino with dried jaws of Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) Philippines

Petra Wegner / Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (Blenheim) chewing on dried food

Juergen Freund / Dried fish, Banda Islands, Indonesia

George Chan / Dried seahorses {Hippocampus sp} Handumon Island, Philippines

Pete Oxford / Least Auklet {Aethia pusilla} thoraxes drying in sun, Little diomede Aleut community, Bering Sea, Alaska. Note- The thorax is dried for consumption.

Juergen Freund / Dried seahorses in bag ready to be sold for food, Philippines

Konrad Wothe / Cinnamon (Cinnamomum aromaticum) comes from the inner bark of a tropical evergreen tree that curls into scrolls when dried, Germany

Pete Oxford / Dried young walrus meat for food, St Lawrence Is, Bering sea, Alaska, USA Aleut community

Jeff Rotman / People holding dried shark fins used in shark soup and other products, caught on longline hook, Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean,

Onne van der Wal / Freeze dried food for the ocean race on "Maximus" from Newport to Bermuda, 2006.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Dried shark meat (biltong) for sale. South Africa

Juergen Freund / Dried shark fins part of illegal fishing industry Banda Islands Indonesia