All of the people fishing off the Imperial Beach pier had coolers to store their catches. One of them removed the top of his cooler to show me his latest prize, a large mackerel, still very much alive and staring at me from the bubbly bloody water that swirled around him. Its eye seems incongruously large, and provides the focal point of this image. In my original color image, the huge eye coming out of the bloody water symbolized suffering. I converted the image to black and white, abstracting the image and changing its meaning from suffering to confinement.