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Workers aboard a trawler reel in nets loaded with target fish and bycatch after a few hours of fishing in the French Mediterranean Sea. Photos taken on assignment for Ecostorm / Compassion In World Farming.

Trawling nets pull thousands of fish including bycatch - non-target animals - onto the deck of a fishing vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. Photos taken on assignment for Ecostorm / Compassion In World Farming.

With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. The two main fishing methods used are purse seine (nets resembling a drawstring purse when tightened to surround the fish) and trawler nets, with each vessel removing approximately 3 to 7 tonnes of fish from the sea per day. Onboard the fishing vessels, the fish are left to slowly suffocate to death. The amount of bycatch is high—several tonnes of undesirable dead fish are dropped back into the sea.

With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. Fish farms discharge high levels of harmful pollutants, leading to algal blooms and dead zones and contaminating the water supply. They are also breeding grounds for disease, which can spread to native fish populations. Not only are the fish farms in Greek coastal sea and bay ecosystems damaging the local ecosystems, but they are forcing hundreds of thousands of fish inside overcrowded cages, just to be killed en masse using temperature shocks to maintain the fast pace of the production chain.

Tofurky plant-based ham style roasts roll through machines and along converyor belts to be packaged and shipped worldwide.

Tofurky plant-based ham style roasts roll through machines and along converyor belts to be packaged and shipped worldwide.

Densely packed red hybrid tilapia lie motionless in the murky water of a floating pond after being sedated with clove oil during the harvest at a fish farm in Thailand. Clove oil is a fast acting sedative that is used to calm fish prior to the harvest, making it easier for workers to handle the fish and minimize damage to them from too much struggling.

Workers sort sedated red hybrid tilapia during the harvest at a fish farm in Thailand. Those fish large enough to be sold are tossed into plastic drums, while the smaller fish are tossed back into floating pens. To deliver to certain supermarket chains, the weight and condition of the fish is strictly regulated, thus sedative is regularly used during the harvest to reduce damage to the fish from their struggling.

A worker fills plastic baskets with live Nile tilapia during the harvest at an industrial fish farm in Thailand. The fish will be carried in these baskets to a metal table where they will be sorted by size and tossed into other baskets where they will wait to be transferred to oxygenated water in the back of a pickup truck. From the time they are harvested until the time they are moved to the transport truck, the fish are kept out of the water.

A worker scoops up several live catfish from a shallow metal tray into a net at a wet market in Thailand.

A worker uses a dip net to scoop up a group of juvenile tilapia which become piled within the net as they are lifted out of a transportation tank. The fish will be transferred to a mobile floating cage which will be used to relocate the animals to an Indonesian fish farm in the area, where they will raised until they reach market-size.

A close-up underwater view of a crowded group of tilapia on an Indonesian fish farm, about to be harvested from the floating cage they live in. Surrounding the fish is a net used to confine the fish in a small area so that they can be transferred to another enclosure.

During a nighttime harvest at an Indonesian milkfish farm, workers wearing protective helmets stand in the water of a fish pond pulling up on a harvesting net. Captured and crowded milkfish jump and struggle trying to flee from confinement within the net. Crowding the fish together deprives them of oxygen and they will eventually suffocate.

A view from above as a worker uses a dip net to deposit juvenile tilapia into a mobile floating cage. The fish have been removed from a transportation tank and are being transferred to a nearby Indonesian fish farm.

After crowding sea bass into smaller nets inside their cage, workers fish them with a crane. This farm produces between 500 and 700 tonnes of fish each year.

Tofurky plant-based ham style roasts roll through machines and along conveyor belts to be packaged and shipped worldwide. USA, 2021. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

Deck crew collects sardines onboard the purse seine fishing boat Pandelis II.

A US Coast Guard walks along the beach with a dead bird, scooped up at the public beach. At all hours, clean-up workers, hired by BP, as well as Coast Guards, pick up debris and wildlife from the beaches. USA, 2010.

Tri-State bird rescue volunteer Jaime Stich looks for oiled birds along the south west passage of the Mississippi Delta. Though many birds had oil on their bellies, they could still fly. As of May 17th, only 8 oiled birds had successfully been rescued. USA, 2010.

After hours of trawling the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, a massive net is hauled aboard and the asphyxiation of marine life begins. France, 2018. Selene Magnolia / HIDDEN / We Animals Media

Hundreds of fish are brought to a pool for city fishing. Canada, 2015.

A net used to catch escaping animals at a now defunct animal testing lab. USA, 2008.

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