Cox's Bazar - Fish market

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.