Gallery: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 awards announced —
Title: The longline lottery
Award: Finalist in "The World in Our Hands" category
Photographer: Rodrigo Friscione Wyssmann, Mexico
Wyssmann came upon this grim sight off Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico, after noticing that a fisherman's buoy had been dragged below the surface by a considerable weight.
The hook was on a long line of hooks, set to catch blue and mako sharks.
"It was such a sad scene that I changed the image to black and white, which felt more dignified," he says.