Long lifespans and slow reproduction rates make deep-water sharks and rays as vulnerable to overexploitation as whales once were. We must place them under protection to avoid extinctions.
Seabirds like this sooty shearwater can drown when they become tangled in drift nets and other fishing gear.
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The toll on wildlife from illegal fishing, bycatch and entanglement in fishing gear is likely underestimated, because it doesn’t account for ‘dark’ fishing vessels, a new study finds.
Schools of jackfish pictured in the ocean off Losin, Thailand. Overfishing is a contributing factor in global climate change.
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Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
Over 200 million tonnes of sediment are transported by rivers to the sea each year, the most widespread water contaminant in the country. Its devastating impact on marine life has to be reversed.
A tiger shark swims among surgeonfish off Fuvahmulah Atoll, Maldives, in the Indian Ocean.
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A new initiative is pinpointing areas in the world’s oceans that are key habitats for sharks and their relatives, so that governments can consider protecting these areas.
Seafood is a ubiquitous human food-source, the future stability of which is uncertain.
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Climate change and overfishing are depleting global fish stocks with clear implications for the food security future of billions of people.
The industrialization of the fishing industry and changes in the environment have raised many issues about the management of our fisheries.
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Some baby sharks eat their unborn siblings in utero, while others spend 100 years in childhood. Sink your teeth into the weird world of these juvenile wonders of the deep.
Sharks and rays are rapidly declining globally, and their situation is representative of many other exploited marine species that lack scientific monitoring.
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When you buy seafood, you can’t be sure it is what it says it is – and Australian wholesalers are resistant to new traceability technologies.
Establishing the financial worth of a river’s fish is complicated when many people don’t sell the fish they catch.
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Putting a dollar value on nature has staunch opponents who say it’s morally wrong, but without it, building dams and other infrastructure can run roughshod over vital ecosystems.
Shark and stingray populations have declined by 71 per cent in the last half-century.
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Over 100 shark and ray species were recently added to an international treaty, known as the CITES list, to protect them from the threat of unsustainable and illegal trade.
Overfishing leads to the deaths of millions of sharks each year.
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