Greenpeace-Aktivisten befreiten ein vom Aussterben bedrohten Blauhai, mehrere Schwertfische und weitere Meerestiere im Rahmen einer Expedition im Nordatlantik. | Heute.at

Greenpeace-Aktivisten befreiten ein vom Aussterben bedrohten Blauhai, mehrere Schwertfische und weitere Meerestiere im Rahmen einer Expedition im Nordatlantik.

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Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace España activists from the Arctic Sunrise free a blue shark from a longline. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and crew are exposing the industrial fishing of sharks in the North Atlantic during July 2022. EU fishing fleets from Spain and Portugal are consistently fishing in shark nursery grounds in the North Atlantic using longlines. The North Atlantic’s longline fishery nominally targets swordfish, but has transitioned to rely on shark bycatch to remain profitable. Regulations have failed to keep pace putting sharks, a keystone species, at severe risk. Deliberately ignoring recommendations by scientists and civil society has led to North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks becoming endangered. Global shark populations have plummeted by 70% in the last 50 years.