Sacks of ground fishmeal in a factory in Chumphon, #Thailand. Fishmeal is a coarsely ground powder made from cooked wild fish, bycatch and what is known as trash fish – fish with little market value. The demand for fishmeal, used to feed pets and livestock, has caused overfishing that threatens to collapse the bottom of the food chain.
Oranee Jongkolpath, 30, a vet at Thailand’s Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute in Rayong province, prepares to clean a hawksbill turtle with a double amputation. The turtle was found by fishers among rubbish, and was probably entangled in ghost nets – lost or discarded fishing nets.
