Here are two photos from our recent trip to Kuwait.
While there, we went to the Kuwait fish market where they hold daily auctions of local fish and “foreign” fish (caught in non-Kuwaiti waters). The action’s wild, with a few hundred buyers vying for bucketsful of various varieties of fish and shellfish to be sold in restaurants or in the public market located in another part of the same hall, or even to private buyers buying in bulk. We even got to eat some the next day at a wonderful home-prepared meal.
The auction started with people milling about until suddenly the action started and little by little became more frenetic. It lasted about 15 minutes untill all the fish was sold off.
In the first photo, Chris Kunz is on the right and Hassan Saffouri is on the left—we took the picture shortly after the auction ended. For some perspective, the second photo is of the auction area before it started.
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