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  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms and important habitat for many bird and fish species.
    Gross_PuertoRico064.jpg
  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms.
    Gross_PuertoRico066.jpg
  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms and important habitat for many bird and fish species.
    Gross_PuertoRico063.jpg
  • A Loggerhead sea turtle (caretta caretta) dead after, presumably, being hit by a boat propeller in the Florida Keys, USA.
    20190608-500_0256.jpg
  • A dead Galapagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) possibly starved to death during the drought North Seymour Islet, Galapagos Ecuador.
    20191208GalapagosTopside129.jpg
  • Dead green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hooked and tangled in fishing line as bycatch. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20170729HI_161.jpg
  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms and important habitat for many bird and fish species.
    Gross_PuertoRico067.jpg
  • A snorkeler inspects a large patch of dead elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) in The Bahamas. Climate change and pollution have lead to coral reefs dying unprecedented rates.
    2016_05_20_HI042.jpg
  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms and important habitat for many bird and fish species.
    Gross_PuertoRico062.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's Cabo Rojo, washed up trash and dead mangrove trees still dominate some areas almost three years after hurricane Maria in 2017.
    Gross_PuertoRico065.jpg
  • A plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) boiled to death on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. The fish come into the intertidal zone to mate, spawn and protect their eggs.
    20210628-DSC_7337.jpg
  • Flying fish (Exocoetidae) caught and drowned in a drift net off the coast of Sri Lanka.
    2012_SriLanka_WhaleD5150.jpg
  • A Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) dies after likely being caught and released by sport fisherman. The hook was removed by removing much of the shark's face and head. Image made in the Florida Keys, USA.
    20190607-500_0034.jpg
  • Flying fish (Exocoetidae) caught and drowned in a drift net off the coast of Sri Lanka.
    2012_SriLanka_WhaleD5123.jpg
  • In 2011 The Bahamas was declared a shark sanctuary, banning the killing of sharks. The ban would not have happened if sharks didn't attract tourist revenue. This Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) was killed despite the ban in 2013. The law and the perception of sharks has a gap that is slowly being filled as more local Bahamians reap the rewards of shark tourism.
    Fear Killed The Shark
  • A plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) boiled to death on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. The fish come into the intertidal zone to mate, spawn and protect their eggs.
    20210628-DSC_7349.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico088.jpg
  • A spear fisherman in the Philippines swimming with his octopus catch.
    20181020-500_0748.jpg
  • A plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) boiled to death on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. The fish come into the intertidal zone to mate, spawn and protect their eggs.
    20210628-DSC_7336.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico089.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico087.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico086.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico085.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico084.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico083.jpg
  • After a coral reef dies it crumbles, taking with it many other animals. The cause of the destruction was likely dynamite fishing. Image made near Flores, Indonesia.
    20180924-500_3564.jpg
  • A dead male pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) with maple leaf after spawning in a river on Vancouver Island, Canada.
    20201005-500_4537.jpg
  • Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus) scavenging on a dead fish in Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20200928-500_2719.jpg
  • A dead crab, boiled to death, on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. I saw hundreds of sea stars, crabs and even some fish that died from the heat. It's likely billions of animal were killed.
    20210627-DSC_7040.jpg
  • A dead and dried-out plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) on a storm drain, probably dropped here by a bird. Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210605-DSC_6173.jpg
  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms and important habitat for many bird and fish species.
    Gross_PuertoRico062.jpg
  • After almost three years there are still large areas of dead mangroves in Puerto Rico, like this in Cabo Rojo, after hurrican Maria. Mangroves are a shoreline's best known defence during large storms and important habitat for many bird and fish species.
    Gross_PuertoRico067.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's Cabo Rojo, washed up trash and dead mangrove trees still dominate some areas almost three years after hurricane Maria in 2017.
    20200228-DSC_1202.jpg
  • A bear-proof trash dispenser that reads "A fed bear is a dead bear!" in a public park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210607-DSC_6276.jpg
  • An ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) dead, presumably from extreme heat and extra low tides on the east coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.
    20210627-DSC_7031.jpg
  • A dead leather star (Dermasterias imbricata), likely a victim of the extreme heat wave coupled with mid-day extra low tides.
    20210627-DSC_7042.jpg
  • A driftnet catches flying fish off Sri Lanka
    2012_SriLanka_WhaleD5123.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico089.jpg
  • A Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) for sale at a market in Nassau, Bahamas.
    20180721-501_6572.jpg
  • A green sea turtle tangled in fishing line and drown.
    Singles07.jpg
  • Leather star (Dermasterias imbricata) and California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9108.jpg
  • An ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) boiled to death on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. I saw hundreds of sea stars, crabs and even some fish that died from the heat. It's likely billions of animal were killed.
    20210627-DSC_7027.jpg
  • A Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) dies after likely being caught and released by sport fisherman. The hook was removed by removing much of the shark's face and head. Image made in the Florida Keys, USA.
    20190607-500_0042.jpg
  • An invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) on the end of a spear. In order to keep their numbers low, scuba divers and snorkelers are encouraged to spear as many as possible.
    20180205-DSC_3734.jpg
  • A fisherman walks over a pile of queen conch (Lobatus gigas) shells. The pile is known as a midden. Image made on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
    2016_09_23ConchLion572ad.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico087.jpg
  • A green sea turtle tangled in fishing line and drown.
    20170729HI_226.jpg
  • A green sea turtle tangled in fishing line and drown.
    20170729HI_224.jpg
  • Scientists are predicting a queen conch (Lobatus gigas) fishery collapse is imminent, but how best to protect them is heatedly debated. Conch are the national food of the Bahamas and important culturally, economically and ecologically.
    BahamasConchFishery08.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9133.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9111.jpg
  • A leather sea star (Dermasterias imbricata) boiled to death on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. I saw hundreds of sea stars, crabs and even some fish that died from the heat. It's likely billions of animal were killed.
    20210627-DSC_7042.jpg
  • An ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) boiled to death on the shores of Vancouver Island. The victim of a heat wave (a recent study concluded it would have been almost impossible without human-made climate change) that coincided with extremely low tides in the middle of the day. I saw hundreds of sea stars, crabs and even some fish that died from the heat. It's likely billions of animal were killed.
    20210627-DSC_7031.jpg
  • Turbinaria ornata, a brown algae, is dominating what used to be coral reefs in this lagoon in Moorea, French Polynesia.
    20210813-500_6118.jpg
  • Commercial fisherman Andres Maldonado cleans a triggerfish near Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. He noticed drastic and obvious declines in fish numbers and habitat availbale after Hurricane Maria in 2017 which put many other commercial fisherman out of business.
    Gross_PuertoRico060.jpg
  • A stingray, caught while fishing for other species, is killed to be used as bait for shark fishing off a purpose-built fishing dock in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
    20180301-500_5411.jpg
  • A hatchet and knife sit on a bucket. These are the tools used to crack open queen conch (Lobatus gigas) the national food of The Bahamas. Image made on Harbour Island, Bahamas.
    20170427HI0971.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico088.jpg
  • A green sea turtle tangled in fishing line and drown. <br />
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This green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) was found tangled in fishing line and a fishing hook off Eleuthera in The Bahamas. When the people who found her told me about it I knew I had to go back and remove the line so it didn't claim any more victims.
    Drowned Turtle.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9158.jpg
  • In Puerto Rico's southwest, Cabo Rojo, mangrove trees that died during hurricane Maria in 2017 have still not recovered in 2020. Mangroves are the best-known defence in large storms producing large waves. A shoreline is greatly weakened without mangroves.
    Gross_PuertoRico084.jpg
  • On a purpose-built fishing dock in northern Florida a stingray is caught for shark-fishing bait.
    20180301-500_5411sm.jpg
  • Despite the Bahamas being declared a shark sanctuary in 2011, their reputation among the local population is less than popular. Many fisherman will kill sharks simply for the sake of killing a shark. Here a Caribbean Reef Shark (Carcharhinus perezi) was killed, decapitated and simply dumped off a fish cleaning dock. No fish, jaws, teeth or anything else were removed.
    2013_Jan5_HI014.jpg
  • Despite being internationally banned open-ocean driftnets are still common in many waters due to lack of proper enforcement. Here we see a flying fish has fallen victim.
    Driftnet Killer
  • A shrimp that is most likely a red Cuban cave shrimp (Barbouria cubensis) scavenging on a dead crab in a blue hole on Eleuthera, Bahamas. When a shrimp finds a meal it rises in the water column to avoid competition.
    2013_09_03_HI371.jpg
  • Invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) among dead seashells and a muddy seabed. These crabs uproot important seagrass and can out-compete native crab species. Sooke, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210517-500_7487.jpg
  • A red cave shrimp feasting on a dead crab that has fallen into an in-land pond on Eleuthera, Bahamas. Directly under the opening is a silty plain that is covered in the shrimp. When a possible food source falls into the pond the lucky shrimp will swim up off the bottom to avoid competition.
    Scavenger
  • Galapagos Bullhead Shark (Heterodontus quoyi) scavanging a dead fish, Tagus Cove, Isabela Island, Galapagos, Ecuador.
    20191211-500_7024.jpg
  • A once thriving reef is now dead, succumbing to rising temperatures, pollution and overfishing.
    2016_05_20_HI042.jpg
  • These snappers show little fear towards lemon sharks as the sharks tend to target sick, dead or dying prey.
    LemonSharkStory02.jpg
  • The reefs in Cuba's protected Gardens of the Queen are as healthy as they come in the Caribbean. Large predators like this Nassau grouper are a dead giveaway of a healthy ecosystem.
    NassauGrouperOnReef.jpg
  • Two fisherman carry a dead swordfish for processing at a landing dock in Sri Lanka.
    2012_SriLanka_Fisher036.jpg
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