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  • On small islands waste management can be a challenge. Garbage, especially plastic, is blown into the sea and becomes toxic to fish, birds and other wildlife. Image made on Harbour Island, Bahamas.
    20170427HI0076.jpg
  • Waste management is notoriously difficult on heavily populated islands. Perhaps this speaks to a greater issue of the world's love affair with over consumerism and wastefulness.
    20170427HI0076.jpg
  • A green sea turtle tangled in fishing line and drown.
    Singles07.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A yellow pygmy goby (Lubricogobius exiguus) in a discarded beer bottle. Image made in Anilao, Philippines
    20181007-500_6993.jpg
  • A plastic bottle cap floats at the surface among sargassum seaweed (sargassum natans) in the Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean.
    20190731-500_4430.jpg
  • Dead green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hooked and tangled in fishing line as bycatch. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20170729HI_161.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
  • 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
  • Yellow pygmy goby (Lubricogobius exiguus) in a discarded beer bottle. Image made in Anilao, Philippines
    20181008-500_7031.jpg
  • Almaco Jack fish (Seriola rivoliana) take shelter under a sargassum matt with a plastic packing tie in it. Image made in the Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean, International Waters.
    20190811-500_6101.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
  • A large tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis) and almaco jack fish (Seriola rivoliana) live under the cover of sargassum in the Sargasso Sea. Notice the plastic packing tie in the right of the frame. Image made in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, International Waters.
    20190811-500_6109.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
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9111.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9158.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9133.jpg
  • A lone Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) or starfish crawling on the seabed off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The species has been devastated by sea star wasting disease.
    20210709-500_1660.jpg
  • A lone Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) or starfish crawling on the seabed off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The species has been devastated by sea star wasting disease.
    20210709-500_1607.jpg
  • A lone Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) or starfish crawling on the seabed off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The species has been devastated by sea star wasting disease.
    20210709-500_1555.jpg
  • A lone Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) or starfish crawling on the seabed off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The species has been devastated by sea star wasting disease.
    20210709-500_1549.jpg
  • A lone Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) or starfish crawling on the seabed off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The species has been devastated by sea star wasting disease.
    20210709-500_1638.jpg
  • A sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Sunflower stars experienced a more than 90% mortality rate from sea star wasting disease which emerged in 2013. Urchins, a prey item of the sunflower star, have since proliferated which has lead to major decreases in kelp cover. Kelp is a carbon sink.
    20210709-500_1660.jpg
  • A sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Sunflower stars experienced a more than 90% mortality rate from sea star wasting disease which emerged in 2013. Urchins, a prey item of the sunflower star, have since proliferated which has lead to major decreases in kelp cover. Kelp is a carbon sink.
    20210709-500_1555.jpg
  • A juvenile Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) crawling on kelp off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210709-500_1681.jpg
  • Close-up detail of the the tufts of gills and spines surrounded by pedicellariae (pincers that can nip off the tube feet of other sea stars) of a sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210520-500_8245.jpg
  • Close-up detail of the the tufts of gills and spines surrounded by pedicellariae (pincers that can nip off the tube feet of other sea stars) of a sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210520-500_8208.jpg
  • Close up detail of the pincer, called a pedicellariae, of a sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. It is used to catch prey, ward off predators, and deter larvae from settling on their aboral surface.
    20210520-500_8245.jpg
  • Close-up detail of the the tufts of gills and spines surrounded by pedicellariae (pincers that can nip off the tube feet of other sea stars) of a sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210520-500_8128.jpg
  • Close-up detail of the the tufts of gills and spines surrounded by pedicellariae (pincers that can nip off the tube feet of other sea stars) of a sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210507-500_7134.jpg
  • Close-up detail of the the tufts of gills and spines surrounded by pedicellariae (pincers that can nip off the tube feet of other sea stars) of a sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210520-500_8282.jpg
  • Close-up detail of the the tufts of gills and spines surrounded by pedicellariae (pincers that can nip off the tube feet of other sea stars) of a sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210507-500_7086.jpg
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