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Overfishing, Hong Kong, Alex Hofford
A young girl gestures with her arms about the size of a large 'Napoleon Wrasse' or 'Humphead Wrasse' in front of a seafood restaurant in Hong Kong's Sai Kung district.
This highly-prized table fish ('so mei' in Cantonese) is found on coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and is vulnerable to cyanide-fishing in countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, as it is difficult to catch using a traditional line and hook. Another reason the line and hook method is not used to catch the 'Napoleon Wrasse' is to preserve its' lips which are considered by Chinese to be a delicacy - supposedly good for sexual stamina. The lips also retail for up to three or four times as much as the meat on the rest of the fish. Though exports are banned from the Maldives and the Philippines, and restricted by size from Indonesia, imports still find their way through Hong Kong's loose monitoring system. The species is estimated to be declining at a rate of 20% every 10 years.
Creator:
Alex Hofford
Unique identifier:
GP0151K
Old Image ID:
4156281
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Keywords
Keywords:
Asian ethnicities
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Children
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Day
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Endangered species
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Fish
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Fishing (Industry)
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Knives
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KWCI (GPI)
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Local population
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Oceans (campaign title)
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Outdoors
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Overfishing
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Restaurants
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Seafood
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Small group of people