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Taking the road less traveled Spending a year in five continents to embrace my "inner turtle", to live simply, and to avoid being shark bait!

Ecuador's La Costa

Here is the prize of the catch: its fin.

ECUADOR | Saturday, 30 June 2012 | Views [301]

Here is the prize of the catch: its fin.

Tags: shark fin, dead shark, fish market, puerto lopez

A brutal day at the fish market, counted over 100 sharks caught, here was just a few of them, five alopias pelagicus and a carcharhinus limbatus (black tip), the latter one is the kind I swam with in Tofo.

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The fin of a hammerhead shark being cut at the fish market

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