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PHOTO OF THE DAY August 31, 2003  

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Where Sur, Oman
When 1993
Photographer James L. Stanfield

"Freshly caught tuna await buyers at Sur, Oman's chief fishing center. From the 7th to the 19th centuries Sur was a hub for the slave trade that stretched from East Africa to India."

—From "Oman," May 1995, National Geographic magazine

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