SAN FRANCISCO (USA)- The US state of California moves to place great white sharks on endangered species list. New research, showing only 350 great whites remain in the waters off California and Baja Mexico, led to the unanimous vote of the state Fish and Game Commission to study whether toContinue Reading
WESTERN CAPE (SOUTH AFRICA)- Last week, a man was found guilty of catching and landing a great white shark. The Mossel Bay Magistrate’s Court decided: either twelve months in prison, suspended for five years or 120.000 Rand. The verdict was welcomed by the national Department of agriculture, forestry and fisheriesContinue Reading
PERTH (AUSTRALIA)- West Australian Fisheries officers have this week been baiting the waters 250 km south of Perth in order to catch a great white sharks uspected of having established itself at unpatrolled swimming beaches along this since Christmas. Fisheries staff in two boats have this week set baited linesContinue Reading
NUKULUA (FIJI)- About 50 dead juvenile sharks washed ashore on Nukulau, Fiji. It is believed that they could be the unborn pups of a pregnant female Hammerhead that was killed at sea. Another cruel proof of the terrible trade called shark finning. According to internationally recognised shark expert Dr DemianContinue Reading
Happy new year. But not for sharks. Photos shot by environmentalist Gary Stokes in Hong Kong in the New Year show more than 18,000 shark fins drying on the roofs of industrial buildings. The astonishing images present just a fraction of the haul that kills an estimated 75 million sharksContinue Reading
SAUSALITO (USA)- Great white sharks in the North East Pacific should be protected as endangered Species. Shark Stewards has filed a petition with the California Fish and Game Commission to protect the sharks under the Endangered Species Act. The genetically distinct white shark population in California and Baja California, Mexico,Continue Reading
PAPEETE (FRENCH POLYNESIA)-Good news for sharks in the South Pacific. Not only has the government of French Polynesia included the mako, the last shark that was not protected in its waters, on the list of fish banned from capture or trade in its vast territorial zone in the South Pacific.Continue Reading