WASHINGTON, DC (USA)- The Pew Charitable Trusts has worked with eight countries and territories around the world in recent years to establish shark sanctuaries, implementing policies that ban commercial fishing of sharks and possession of fishing gear used to target them. Enforcing laws in these sanctuaries, which can span millions of square kilometers,Continue 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
SAN DIEGO (USA)- Scientists at Ocearch are tracking a big great white shark by gps off the eastern coast of the USA. They called her Mary Lee, after the mom of one of the researchers. She was tracked while swimming from Cape Cod to South Carolina and Georgia. See theContinue Reading