Powerful images show dark side of South-East Asia’s fishing industry

These highly effective photos are the work of photographer Nicole Tung, who spent 9 months documenting the human and environmental value of overfishing in South-East Asia. Because the Nineteen Fifties fishing has morphed from artisanal commerce to industrialised world business. Overfishing and unlawful fishing have additionally risen to satisfy quickly growing demand from a rising inhabitants.

Tung centered on the area as a result of it performs a key position within the world fishing commerce. Her mission, funded by a €50,000 Carmignac Photojournalism Award for fieldwork, modified her stance on seafood. It isn’t about shoppers giving it up utterly, she says. Quite, they have to be far more conscious of their decisions.

It was, she provides, “harrowing” to listen to tales from Indonesian fishermen describing violence that they had witnessed at sea and the horrible situations they usually skilled engaged on fishing vessels.

The picture above reveals a fisher unloading yellowfin tuna at Common Santos fish port within the Philippines after being at sea for a month. Bigeye tuna and blue marlin are additionally a part of his catch.

Elsewhere, a dock employee from Myanmar (above) kinds the fish species being unloaded in Ranong, Thailand. Within the beneath shot, Indigenous Urak Lawoi individuals and Thai villagers from Koh Lipe, Thailand, collect wooden from close by islands throughout a pageant marking the tip of the fishing and tourism season. They’ll use the fabric to construct a ceremonial boat as an providing to their ancestors.

And on this closing shot (beneath), a household of Filipino fishers bait fishing traces.