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News - Sharks

Maldives ban fishing of sharks

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 20:02

Whale Shark in the Maldives, one of many animals that inhabit the reefs that make up the whole country. Wikipedia

The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week. “We’ve decided to go ahead with a shark fishing ban,” Ibrahim Didi, the fisheries and agriculture minister of the Maldives, said by telephone from Male, the capital. “Beginning July 1 the…

Local divers save a shark

Thursday, 04 March 2010 18:10

Two South Florida divers had a close encounter few would believe. They came face to face with a shark that had a plastic ring around its neck. John Dickinson and Chip Garber not only saw it, they have proof. They videotaped it. They were with a group that was diving on a wreck off Palm Beach called "The Princess Ann" when they noticed a nurse shark lying lifeless on the bottom of the ocean. "We thought the sh…

Great white sharks 'more endangered than tigers'

Friday, 19 February 2010 19:02

Great White Sharks are now even more endangered than tigers, according to a leading marine biologist. Dr Ronald O'Dor, senior scientist at the Census of Marine life, said that a new study had shown that numbers had dropped below the 3,500 tigers that exist in the wild. Scientists had been under the impression that Great Whites, although rare, were not endangered, because they were spotted at different areas al…

Divers find whale shark with fins, tail sliced off

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 07:12

NO FINS, NO TAIL A group of American and Filipino divers find a juvenile whale shark stripped of its fins and tail and barely alive on Monday morning off Maricaban Island in Anilao, Batangas. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/PETER GARRATY AND DARREN GILKISON

A dead whale shark without fins and a tail was buried on the shores of Tingloy Island on Tuesday morning, inscribing a sad epilogue to a Manila conference of 50 nations for the protection of the endangered fish species. Locally known as “butanding,” the juvenile whale shark (Rhincodon typus) was found at 9:30 a.m. on Monday by a group of foreign and local divers in Barangay Maricaban on the island, 44 kilometer…

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