The fishing of hundreds of sharks a day is being allowed off Cape shores during lockdown, even though this industry provides relatively few jobs, harms marine biodiversity and offers no food security.
An endangered hammerhead shark, washed up in the wake of shark longline fishing off the Cape south coastThe fishing of hundreds of sharks a day is being allowed off Cape shores during lockdown, even though the industry provides relatively few jobs, harms marine biodiversity and offers no food security.
A de-finned bronze whaler female with two aborted pups miscarried on the beach as she could not swim and was washed aground, on the Cape south coast, after shark longliners were in the area.The demersal shark longline industry exports its catch to Australia, where it is sold as “flake and chips”. Under lockdown, we can’t attend to a whale if it gets entangled in fishing lines. That is not considered essential.”
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