Juergen Freund / Aerial view of an island community living amongst mangroves. Outrigger boats are parked in the shallows and drying racks are found in each house for drying of various marine animals possibly like shar...

Nature Production / Drying seaweed on racks (Undaria pinnatifida) Japan

Pete Oxford / Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) drying racks, Vinales Valley, Sierra del Rosario, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Pete Oxford / Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) drying racks, Vinales Valley, Sierra del Rosario, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Fish drying on a rack at fishing camp on the estuary of the River Ob. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) drying on racks at inuit hunting camp. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1992.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) drying on racks at an inuit hunting camp. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1992.

Will Watson / Drying Cichlid fish (Copadichromis sp) known locally as "Utaka", on racks on the shore of Lake Malawi, Malawi. March 2009

Tim Laman / Fish drying on racks, Jaring Halus village vicinity, near the mangroves, North Sumatra, Indonesia. June 2006

Tim Laman / Fish drying on racks, Jaring Halus village vicinity, near the mangroves, North Sumatra, Indonesia. June 2006

Pete Oxford / Sisal drying on racks, Berenty reserve, Madagascar.

Pete Oxford / Sisal drying on racks, Berenty Private Reserve, Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Woman drying sisal on racks, Madagascar, Berenty Reserve.

Juergen Freund / Anchovies drying on racks, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Staffan Widstrand / Fish drying on racks Rost, Lofoten island, Norway