New Deep Water Shark Species Discovered
A researched rode along a commercial fishing ship for 2 months and found 350 sharks that were dragged up as bycatch, including a few that are probably never before seen species. NOPE.
Ok, so admittedly I hate sharks because I’m afraid of them, but sharks are indeed endangered, and commercial fishing is harmful to their populations. These were all caught as “bycatch”, meaning that they accidentally got scooped up in the nets, and will be discarded.
Graduate student Paul Clerkin spent 2 months with a commercial fishing crew in the Indian Ocean that fished at about 6,500 feet.
A false catshark. The fishing vessel picked up 30 of these deepwater sharks, previously thought to be rare.
Via: ouramazingplanet.com
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SamMicCham 9 months agoThis blanket fear/hatred of sharks is one of the reasons so many of them are endangered; people think they’re icky and don’t care that they get caught in fishing nets or that their fins get hacked off and the finless sharks get tossed back into the water to slowly drown. Yeah sharks are freaky, but they’re also really cool and an important part of the oceans ecosystem. This makes me sad.
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FedandBuzzed 9 months ago
Gotta love modern fishing techniques. At least we’ll get to catalog the species before killing them all, right?
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krisztinai 9 months agoI don’t eat things that come from water. I think people nowadays should do the same thing. I mean, all-you-can-eat seafood buffets and trawlers are terrible on oceanic ecosystems. And don’t even get me started on pollution.
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bighungrysteve 9 months agoThis is why I can’t see eye to eye with people who are pescatarian for ‘ethical reasons.’ I’m hardly one to talk, as veganism is the logical endpoint of ethical eating, but people who just eat fish because it’s ‘less cruel’ need to take a long hard look at themselves.
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Davine S. 9 months ago“previously thought to be rare” Ok, well if you put a huge-ass net in the ocean and scoop up everything all willy-nilly, of course you’ll catch things - the rare stuff doesn’t know how to avoid your net any more than the common stuff does. If these guys keep indiscriminately deep-water dredging, I’m pretty sure the false catsharks will reclaim their “rare” status, posthaste. Yeah, I said “posthaste”. That’s how I roll.
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