Tangled webs

Images and information From Kate Evans, "Drop in Shark Fin Prices Lures People Smugglers," Australia Network News, 14 November 2013.

If you are Rahman Djalilan, a fisherman from the village of Papela on the Indonesian island of Rota, you go out to sea in a wooden boat with only a sail for propulsion--no motor.

Rahman Djalilan






You spend up to two months at sea, living on your boat, and you fish with long lines, for sharks, because shark fins are popular on the Chinese market, and until 2012, a mo...