Week in Review: Shark and Fishing Hotspots Overlap, Humpback Sanctuary Won’t Expand, and More!
1. Study Finds Shark Hotspots Overlap with Commercial Fishing Locations A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that sharks are at risk of being overfished by commercial fishing vessels in in the North Atlantic. During a four-year period from 2005 to 2009, researchers from University of […]
Week in Review: Studying Shark’s Social Lives to Expose Their Friendly Side and More!
1. Studying Shark’s Social Lives to Expose Their Friendly Side A study began a year ago to investigate if sharks engage in the same kind of social behaviors as humans. The research, conducted by a team at the Behavior, Ecology and Evolution of Fishes Laboratory at Macquaire University, was collected over a […]
Week in Review: Half of Plastic Trash in Oceans Comes from 5 Countries and More!
1. Half of Plastic Trash in Oceans Comes from 5 Countries More than half of the plastic trash in the ocean come from five countries in Asia or the Pacific Islands. Approximately 60 percent of the plastic trash in the sea originated from China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. The quickly growing infrastructure, lack of waste management regulations, and […]
Week in Review: Is Shark Finning Finally on the Decline?
1. Tides Are Turning for the Shark Fishermen of Indonesia and India Indonesia has a total of 118 different species of sharks which marks the world’s highest diversity of sharks. Every year, 73 million sharks are killed for their fins and traded around the world. Combined, Indonesia and India comprise around 20% of the global […]
Sea Save collected over 40k Signatures to Halt Cayman Island Coastal Dredging
Government officials in Grand Cayman Island were going to dredge a critical area of the Georgetown coast. The installation of the planned pier would have made docking the large cruise ships easier but would have killed much of the world-renown reef system surrounding the island. We were able to collect over 40,000 signatures from around […]