Ocean Sentry
The U.S. Coast Guard said it found hundreds of dead sharks, likely caught for their fins, in an illegal net off the coast of Texas. The so-called gill net stretched for five miles and contained 345 shark carcasses: 225 black tip, 109 bonnet and 11 bull sharks, the coast guard said in a news release Wednesday. Gill nets, which are illegal in Texas and some other U.S. states, “indiscriminately kill any fish or marine mammal it snares across miles of ocean…. Source
