Tommy Trenchard documents the bycatch of a requiem shark, its body arched in a final act of resistance.
Tommy was travelling on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise. The ship's research expedition aimed to document the bycatch or accidental capture of sharks by fishing boats targeting tuna and swordfish, and to highlight the lack of effective regulation of industrial-scale fishing in international waters.
Approximately 80 million sharks are taken from the world's oceans every year. Because of fishing, numbers of sharks worldwide have dropped since 1970. Three quarters of all shark species are now at risk of extinction.