PERU fishing with guts to report…
Three species of sharks, which record a “steady decline” in recent years in the Americas, will be one of the focuses of the conference on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP11) to be held in Quito (Ecuador) next week.
“This is the first time the conference is held in Latin America, a region where more shark fishing in the world”Said Maximiliano Bello, Speaker of the Global Campaign for shark conservation at the Pew Center.
He said “migratory species need to be joint ventures between United”.
The three species (hammer, fox and silky) Fisheries are targeted because of their prized fins, to be subsequently marketed in Asia, the global market for large sharks.
The inclusion of Zorro Sharks has been proposed by the European Union; the Silky Shark, Egypt; Hammer and Sharks, by Ecuador and Costa Rica.
Bello warned that these three types of sharks have suffered “steady decline” in recent years, and show a particularly strong decline in the Pacific off the coast of Central America and Gulf of California.
He said that in the Western and Central Pacific, population reduction Sharks Zorro estimated 70%; while in the Gulf of Mexico, it is estimated that the abundance of Silky Sharks have declined over 90% in the last 40 years.
In total, more than half of all species of sharks and rays are threatened or near threatened with extinction due to overfishing, according to data from the Global Campaign for Conservation of Sharks.
And every year, trap and kill about 100 million sharks in commercial fisheries, a number that “is not sustainable”He added.
SOURCE: Diariocorreo.pe
