Dozens of sharks are hauled ashore and dropped onto a dirty floor at the busy Tanjung Luar fish market in East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. In the blink of an eye, their fins are sliced off.

The gruesome picture was captured in Hunted, The Dorsal Effect – a short film released by an ecotourism venture founded by Singaporean Kathy Xu, who offers tourists eco-tours to secluded parts of Lombok.

Xu said her main goals were to save sharks, help fishermen and promote conservation in Lombok.

Her goal to stop shark fishing could only be possible by giving the fishermen an alternative livelihood to catching sharks – a booming trade that is increasingly alarming environmentalists.

“When you see sharks in their natural habitat, I think that there’s a point where something would change in you and you really want your future generations to be able to experience that as well. That’s the dream of The Dorsal Effect,” Xu said.

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