Images tagged "plastic"

Turtle eggs at a turtle farm. Taiwan, 2019.

Hatchlings at a turtle farm. Taiwan, 2019.

Hatchlings at a turtle farm. Taiwan, 2019.

A turtle farm.

Turtles for sale at a turtle farm. Taiwan, 2019.

Dyed chicks being sold at the side of the road.

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 main fish auction in the port of Piraeus (the chief sea port of Athens) is the largest in Greece, processing and selling approximately 150 to 200 tonnes of fish daily, of which about 60 to 70 tonnes are from Greek fishing vessels operating in the local seas, about 20 to 30 tonnes are from Greek fish farms, and the remainder are imports.

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 main fish auction in the port of Piraeus (the chief sea port of Athens) is the largest in Greece, processing and selling approximately 150 to 200 tonnes of fish daily, of which about 60 to 70 tonnes are from Greek fishing vessels operating in the local seas, about 20 to 30 tonnes are from Greek fish farms, and the remainder are imports.

Shoppers browse the stalls at a wet market in Thailand in the early morning. A fish stall displays fish and shellfish.

Workers at a fish farm in Thailand weigh and pack fresh red hybrid tilapia that have recently been slaughtered by "live chilling".

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.

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 at a fish farm in Thailand pushes a cart containing a drum of sedated red hybrid tilapia that have recently been harvested. The fish will be transported to a supermarket and sold fresh.

Live tilapia slowly suffocate in a basket at an Indonesian fish slaughterhouse. A worker uses a wooden stick to strike and kill the fish as part of the slaughtering process.

Direct overhead view of workers inside an Indonesian milkfish processing facility, seasoning and sorting milkfish into plastic crates before the fish are steam cooked at the facility.

Close-up of a crate full of dead milkfish at an Indonesian fish market.

Workers at a fish market in Indonesia unload crates of dead milkfish from a transport truck.

A close-up view at surface level of the white and decaying bodies of several dead tilapia float on the surface water of a floating cage at an Indonesian fish farm. The dead tilapia are fed as food to the catfish being raised on the same farm.

Black-furred mice, also known as C57BL/6 mice, with skull implants. A part of their skull is removed with a window inserted so that scientists can observe a brain working in a fully conscious living animal. USA, 2020. Roger Kingbird / HIDDEN / We Animals Media

No longer of use for experimentation, a laboratory mouse is asphyxiated by carbon dioxide and then bagged for incineration. USA, 2020. Roger Kingbird / HIDDEN / We Animals Media

$Two albino rats with recently fractured backs that paralyzed their hind end, are used for studies aimed to fix and cure paralysis and damaged spinal cords. USA, 2022. Roger Kingbird / We Animals Media$

Overhead view of fish for sale at the largest fish auction in Greece.

Detail of red mullet for sale at the largest fish auction in Greece.

Dyed chicks sold in a market. Guatemala, 2009.