Colombia condemns shark hunting in Colombian Pacific By Alice Boyd, Colombia Reports, 14. October 2011 Colombia’s presidential advisor for biodiversity has condemned the killing of around 2,000 sharks in Colombian waters by Costa Rican fishermen. The sharks were killed in the Colombian Pacific just off Malpelo island, which has been declared a sanctuary of
Published by BigPond News, 14. October 2011 Summer is only around the corner, but Queenslanders are on high alert after a record-breaking tiger shark was caught off Main Beach on the Gold Coast yesterday. Measuring 3.8 metres and tipping the scales at a massive 470 kilograms, the shark was hooked when it bit a metre-long
Newborn Great White Shark Carcharodon carcharias caught in Primorye Russia
Another Whale Shark caught in China Rhincodon typus
Perdido Key tourists looking for help for wounded bull shark Written by Kimberly Blair, Pensacola News Journal, 11. October 2011 A wounded, six-foot-long bull shark on Perdido Key is keeping beachgoers out of the water, this afternoon. Melissa Ward, of Montgomery, Ala., called the News Journal, in an effort to seek someone one to
Replica of Huge White Shark in Germany Carcharodon carcharias Thomas Winkler
Sixgill Shark netted in the Ionian Sea Hexanchus griseus Albania
Helmut Nickel, Shark Year Magazine, 10. October 2011 The auction of a porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) in the Dutch city of Scheveningen last August (see here) has lead to an outcry from several European conservation groups. Here is an update on the situation: Binnenland Nieuws is reporting that the porbeagle shark had been caught by
310 kg Stingray caught in Mekong River Laos
Porbeagle shark displayed by UK fishmonger