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Sealord photography focuses on three themes:
Biodiversity with an emphasis on marine life
Sustainability relating to construction & urban development; energy; food; transport; and waste.
The Guernsey community
Fulton Fish Market, New York City
Between 1982 and 1994 about 1500 seafood species were sold at the original Fulton Fish Market from all over the world to feed New York's cosmopolitan population. Atlantic Canada, New England, and all the states down to Florida and around the Gulf of Mexico supplied the bulk of supplies. Canada and New England were important for codfishes (haddock, cod, and pollock) and flatfish. New York and New Jersey and the Middle Atlantic States supplied bass, flatfish, porgies, squid, tilefish, weakfish, and a large assortment of other species. Southern States supplied warm water fish such as snapper, grouper, and spotted seatrout. Migratory fish such as tuna were caught in season all along the USA seaboard. Alaska sent salmon in season. During the early 1980s new sources of fresh (unfrozen) seafood opened up. Norwegian farmed salmon arrived into Fulton followed by farmed salmon from Maine, Washington State, Canada, Scotland, and Chile. Latin America supplied groupers, snappers, croakers, porgies and many other species. New Zealand supplied green-lipped mussels, orange roughy, oreo dories, John Dorys, clams, oysters and even sea robins (gurnards) among many other species. Caribbean islands supplied snapper, parrotfish, grunts and various exotic reef fish. The Middle East expanded exports to Fulton. Oman and Saudi Arabia supplied groupers, snappers, croakers and various wrasse. Pakistan supplied seafood to Fulton as well as west African and east African countries. Tuna came from the Philippines. Swordfish arrived from Chile. Fulton even received seafood from Antarctic waters. There weren't many countries with a marine fishing industry that didn't ship seafood to Fulton during the time I was there.
Seafood salesmen Paddy Curran and Bobby DiGregorio (in Trust Me t-shirt) at Fulton Fish Market, South Street, New York City in August 1991.
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Sealord photography's biodiversity images began with a focus on international commercial seafood species and the marine life of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Great Britain.
Sealord photography has a growing collection of digital images covering climate change, the environment and sustainability issues.
Sealord photography also covers the Guernsey community and particularly the fund raising activities of Guernsey charities as part of the island's social sustainability.
The fish, shellfish and marine life images would not be possible if it were not for the generosity of commercial and recreational fishermen in Guernsey, and seafood suppliers at various trade shows in the USA, and wholesalers at Fulton Fish Market in New York City.
Many marine biologists have helped identify or confirm the identity of marine species photographed. These people have been mentioned when possible.
Please email: sealord@me.com or sustainableguernsey@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments about Sealord photography. Thank you. Richard Lord