Environmentalists Warn of Shark Troubles

[NVMojo]

BEIJING (AP) -

Many species of shark are facing a serious threat to their existence because of worldwide fishing trends, environmentalists said Wednesday.

Fishermen "used to cut the lines and let sharks go," said Pete Kinghts, executive director of WildAid, a San Francisco-based conservation group, told a shark conservation conference. In recent years, however, fishermen have kept the sharks to sell their lucrative fins.

One-third of the more than 500 shark species are threatened with extinction or are close to being threatened, said Sarah Fowler of the World Conservation Union.

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[OneBlueSky]

1. if the human race wants to survive, we're simply going to have to . . .

place large tracts of ocean completely off limits to commercial fishing of any kind . . . give the various species places (and some time) to regenerate and grow healthy . . .

if we don't, there will come a time -- sooner rather than later -- when there will be no consumable fish of any consequence anywhere . . . and all those people who make their livings fishing will go broke -- while those who fish for sustenance will simply starve . . .