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Fishing for glass eels by Eladio Fernandez, Dominican Republic. Eladio set out to highlight the plight of the endangered American eel. Caught in its juvenile stage, as glass eels, it is exported in the millions each year to Asia. On the coast of the Dominican Republic, over five months, hundreds of fishers gather from dawn to dusk to catch the little eels. These larvae have migrated from the Sargasso Sea, where the adult eels spawn. The US fishery is now tightly controlled, leaving the Caribbean to export without regulations. The image took Eladio many nights of trial and error, using a long exposure to catch the moment the fishers raised their nets out of the incoming waves. (Photo by Eladio Fernandez/Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
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