Sacks of ground fishmeal in a factory in Chumphon, #Thailand. Fishmeal is a coarsely ground powder made from cooked wild fish, bycatch and what is known as trash fish – fish with little market value. The demand for fishmeal, used to feed pets and livestock, has caused overfishing that threatens to collapse the bottom of the food chain.

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Oranee Jongkolpath, 30, a vet at Thailand’s Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute in Rayong province, prepares to clean a hawksbill turtle with a double amputation. The turtle was found by fishers among rubbish, and was probably entangled in ghost nets – lost or discarded fishing nets.

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