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22.01.2022 #SOSGalápagos Every year Chinese fishing vessels come to the seas around the Galápagos, which were declared a Unesco world heritage site in 1978, but this year’...s fleet is one of the largest seen in recent years. There are currently 248 vessels fishing these seas, 243 are flagged to China, which include companies with suspected records of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), according to research by C4ADS, a data analysis NGO. The fleet includes fishing boats and refrigerated container or reefer ships to store enormous catches. These are basically floating slaughterhouses and processing plants. Transferring cargo between vessels is prohibited under international maritime law yet the Chinese flotilla has supply and storage ships along with longline and squid fishing boats. There are some fleets which don’t seem to abide by any regulations, said Norman Wray. (Galápagos Island Governor) One captain of an Ecuadorian tuna boat saw the Chinese fishing boats up close in early July, before the end of the tuna season. They just pull up everything! said the captain (asked not to be named). We are obliged to take a biologist aboard who checks our haul; if we catch a shark we have to put it back, but who controls them? He recalled navigating through the fleet at night, constantly changing course to avoid boats, as their lights illuminated the sea to attract squid to the surface. It was like looking at a city at night, he said. The longline fishing boats had up to 500 lines, each with thousands of fishhooks, he estimated, and claimed that some of the vessels would turn off their automatic tracking systems to avoid detection, particularly when operating in protected areas. The arrival of the latest fleet has also stirred public outrage and a formal complaint by Ecuador as its navy is on alert for any incursion into Ecuadorian waters. The Chinese embassy in Quito said that China was a responsible fishing nation with a zero-tolerance attitude towards illegal fishing. It had confirmed with Ecuador’s navy that all the Chinese fishing vessels were operating legally and don’t represent a threat to anyone, it said in a statement last month. On Thursday China announced a three-month fishing ban in the high seas west of the marine reserve, but it will not come into force until September. Please share your outrage, please sign the petition in comments. We wish there was more we could do. Illegal shark catch on a Chinese fishing vessel in the Galápagos in 2017, Rod Waddington. Thank you for the information The Guardian.

21.01.2022 A team of scientists from the West Australian Museum had only been on the ground at the Cape Range National Park in WA for five minutes when they discovered a C...archarocles megalodon tooth a giant predatory shark that roamed the ocean until its extinction about 3.5 million years ago. 'While there was no whole skeleton, he was able to estimate its size from the teeth and modelling the size of the jaw he said an adult could have measured up to 19 metres long. "A megalodon of 19 metres, depending on how chubby they were ... we are talking about 50 or 60 tonnes." ***It is illegal to collect fossils in the Cape Range National Park, the team of scientists had a permit. https://www.abc.net.au//prime-hunting-ground-for/11996254

17.01.2022 Congrats to NSW DPI Fisheries killing Manta rays at Bondi with these bullshit Shark nets.

14.01.2022 Here is the official CALL TO ACTION that sits alongside the national premiere release of the new highly anticipated Envoy: Shark Cull film. Please sign and share! #NetsOutNow #NoSharkCull #BeAnEnvoy... https://www.change.org/p/australia-end-83-years-of-shark-cu

12.01.2022 Did you know that Australia is unique hotspot of shark and ray biodiversity with of the world’s species? Half of Australia’s species of shark and ray are uniq...ue to Australian waters they’re found nowhere else in the world! Want to help save our unique Aussies? Become a Shark Champion today! Visit www.sharkchampion.org.au

02.01.2022 'We've come a long way, we can do a lot better than shark nets.' We spoke to the experts about whether shark nets are actually doing anything to protect humans in the water, and how they're hurting marine life. Video by Sophy Crane

02.01.2022 To be clear Sea Shepherd Australia did nothing towards this change happening although they have plastered their logo to suggest that..