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Blacktip shark found in huge quantities. Pic/Ganesh Nakhwa

50 tonnes of blacktip sharks end up in fishermen’s nets

According to fishermen, around 100 gillnet boats have caught around 50,000 kilograms of the same species of shark in only two days.  

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