KHOBAR CREEK (PAKISTAN)- Pakistani fishermen who caught a juvenile whale shark have successfully released it without any injury in the offshore waters of the country. They struggled for an hour to safely release the shark The coast of Pakistan is considered to be an important breeding and basking ground forContinue Reading
CAPE TOWN (SOUTH AFRICA)- Up to 24 countries may be catching sharks in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea but failing to report these catches, as is legally required by the Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). A new report by Oceana revealed these secret catches, based onContinue Reading
HONG KONG (CHINA)- Sharks are not meant to put in aquaria. Proof for that was given again at Ocean Park in Hong Kong where six female hammerhead sharks died within seven hours of each other. The remaining eight sharks in the Grand Aquarium “are also at risk” and their conditionsContinue Reading
Shark fin soup might be delicious but it’s destroying the world’s sharks. That’s the message of an ad campaign in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The campaign is using shark coffins to emphasize the message. The new ad campaign from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and design firmContinue Reading
The government of Peru said it might restrict shark fishing to stop the illegal slaughter of up to 15,000 dolphins per year. The dolphins are used as bait by fisherman. The statement was made in response to the the release of footage documenting the practice. A government investigation into theContinue Reading
DUNSBOROUGH (AUSTRALIA)- Shark nets that protect swimmers, but don’t kill sharks and other sealife. That’s what the state government of Western Australia is installing for the summer at the old Dunsborough beach. The nets that run 100m out from the shore at the popular South West beach and 300m parallelContinue Reading
LIMA (PERU)- For over ten years scientists and environmentalists have been warning of a practice going on among shark fishers in Peru: they use dolphins as bait. The past decade saw a mass slaughter of these mammals in Peruvian waters. Hundreds of fishing boats have been accused of killing theContinue Reading