Ocean Sentry
More than half a ton of shark carcasses and fins were discovered on a Costa Rican-flagged boat that was fishing illegally around a protected Colombian island in the Pacific, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Andres Fernandez said. The cargo was found by the navy aboard the fishing boat Camar, Fernandez …
September, 2009
August, 2009
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24 August
Whale shark caught and hacked into pieces in Johor
A quiet lunch affair at a seafood restaurant turned awry and bloody when a whale shark, size of a pick-up truck, was hauled onto the jetty and hacked into pieces. A Singaporean eye-witness who was having his meal at the restaurant, south of Johor, Malaysia, at that time wrote this …
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5 August
2 leopard sharks found in Norwalk trash can
Animal control officers are trying to figure out how two adult leopard sharks ended up in a trash can outside a Norwalk home. A woman said she smelled a foul odor coming from a garbage can outside her house Monday and when she peeked inside found the two dead 4-foot …
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1 August
US Congress To Pass Ban on “Finning” to Protect Sharks
According to the most recent data estimates, roughly 70 million sharks are caught (and killed) each year, most of this is for food, some for sport, and sadly, some just out of fear. But most of the commercially fished sharks are in fact killed for their fins only–their mutilated carcasses …
July, 2009
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31 July
How sharks are going extinct
It is hard to imagine sharks ever going extinct. Sharks have been roaming the oceans for millions and millions of years. Paleontologists have discovered scales and teeth from sharks more than 400 million years old. There are more than 400 species of sharks known today, ranging in size from less …
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20 July
Study: Big sharks disappearing from Gulf
Fodrie, formerly with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and now at the University of North Carolina, was among a group of scientists who studied Press-Register clippings dating back to the 1920s as part of an effort to analyze the health of fish populations in the Gulf of Mexico. Essentially, large …
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16 July
Attack victims push Congress for shark protections
Nearly a dozen shark-attack victims — many of them badly scarred or missing limbs — pressed Congress on Wednesday to protect a sea creature they”d rather not run into again. The group wants to strengthen laws protecting sharks from “finning,” in which fins are sliced from sharks for their meat, …
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13 July
Sharks are being attacked all over the world
The expression “shark attacks” has taken on a new and ominous meaning. The number of people bitten each year by sharks is minuscule. Attacks on sharks by humans, however, have reached unacceptable levels around the world, putting some of these great predators on the threshold of extinction. We are killing …
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12 July
Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks
Mexico”s navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States. Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after …
June, 2009
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29 June
Shark fining in Darien island
Panama Marvel Tours is a local tour company which explores the fauna and flora of Panama. On a recent trip, company director, Lory Forero de Proctor took two Americans – one a military man and the other a House worker – for a sea tour in Darien. They were in …
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25 June
Hammerhead shark faces extinction over hunger for shark fin soup
Hammerhead sharks and giant devil rays are threatened with extinction, according to the first worldwide conservation survey of the species. A third of open-ocean sharks and rays face the same predicament. Growing appetites for shark meat and for the Asian delicacy shark-fin soup are proving too much for populations of …
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19 June
Animal Rights Activists Protest Shark Tournament
With the 23rd Annual Star Island Yacht Club Shark Tournament in Montauk, a much anticipated event within the Long Island fishing community that runs June 18 to 20, animal rights activists are protesting to stop the event. The Humane Society of the United States and Fishpond USA, a major recreational …