Nigeria, Aug. 18 -- The primary landing site for fishing boats in Bosaso, north-east Somalia, is a beehive of activity from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. every day. Traders, fishermen, food sellers and Puntland government officials haggle, shout and exchange pleasantries over the night's catch. They work amid dilapidated fish processing facilities wedged between makeshift food joints and open fish markets.

All varieties of fish and crustaceans are available here, but the small gulper sharks are the main attraction. While a scribe notes the volume caught, a young man slices the sharks on a large table, extracting the maws and placing the livers in plastic buckets. 'Business looks good,' he tells ENACT organised crime project researchers.

Gulper shark...