These fish suffer slow deaths defined by nets, asphyxiation, ice, and blood. Whether they are the intended targets for a vessel’s trawling nets, or just ‘disposable’ bycatch species caught in the fray, once these animals are extracted from their ocean home and hit a vessel’s deck, they are en route to the same fate.
The series of photographs shown here was taken by animal photojournalist Selene Magnolia to document the shocking reality for the fish who are trapped in present-day aquaculture conditions in and around the Mediterranean Sea near France and Greece. In addition to her contributions to HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, Selene is one of the photographers to host her images on our We Animals Stock Site.
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