This is my entry for #monomad challenge by @monochromes.
We are in Cox's Bazar, a touristic town on Indian ocean, in Bangladesh. With tourism I mean only internal tourism: in fact in all our travel there I have seen only three foreign people, but this is a good thing: we could be very close to real people culture and way of life.
Before sunrise, many boats come here to sell fishes.
Following pic is not black&white, but I love the sunrise color:
Many porters get the fishes from the boat to seashore, all by hands:
In the small harbour, buyers are waiting. Some buyers are rich people, and these fishes will go in luxury restaurants, also in faraway places.
Taking fishes on the ground:
Fishes are carefully weighed, to sell them to buyers:
There is also a place where great blocks of ice are generated:
And there is machine to grind it in a sort of 'snow', to maintain fishes fresh:
Silver Pomfret (tender meat and delicate flavour):
Ribbonfish (fish knife), ideal as daily use and also for exportation:
Guitarfish or 'guitar shark' (it's good, but not among the most valuable fish, it is commonly get fried or for soup):
Tasting a crab:
Honor their work! Long life to Bangladesh!
Pictures taken with Sony Alpha 7iii, 24-70 F2.8 lens. November 2024.