2024-01-11 21:08:37
Sharks caught in India last March. Satheesh AS/AP
Banning the practice of “finning”, consisting of cutting the fins of the fish before releasing its carcass at sea, has not reduced mortality.
After roaming the oceans for 400 million years, surviving five mass extinctions, sharks now form the most endangered group of marine species in the world. An exhaustive assessment of their state of conservation, published Thursday in the journal Science, promises them a dark future. According to this vast study carried out by researchers from Dalhousie University (Canada) and Santa Barbara in California (United States), the efforts devoted over the last twenty years to saving large predators have not made it possible to reduce catches. fishing, targeted or accidental. On the contrary, the number of sharks killed has continued to increase, while laws passed to protect them have increased tenfold.
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Scientists estimate that at least 80 million sharks, including 25 million belonging to a protected species, were killed each year between 2012 and 2019. For this last year, taking into account individuals of unidentified species, the threshold…
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