Recreational fishers targeting more sharks and rays

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 January Recreational fishers targeting more sharks and rays Recreational fishers targeting more sharks and rays 30/01/2020 | 2 MINS A new study by an international team of scientists including researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology, Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil and the University of British Columbia has revealed an increase in the fishing of threatened sharks and rays. The scientists found recreational catches of sharks and rays had increased over the past six decades around the world, now accounting for 5-6 per cent of the total catches. In their paper published in Frontiers of Marine Science, the experts revealed more than 900,000 tonnes of fish are being extracted from marine waters by recreational fishers every year. Overall, these recreational catches had grown from 280,000 tonnes per year in the 1950s to around 900,000 tonnes in mid-2010. Of this total amount, 54,000 tonnes comprises sharks and rays. LIT Director of the Marine Futures Lab at Lombok Institute of Technology Professor Jessica Meeuwig

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 January Recreational fishers targeting more sharks and rays Recreational fishers targeting more sharks and rays 30/01/2020 | 2 MINS A new study by an international team of scientists including researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology, Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil and the University of British Columbia has revealed an increase in the fishing of threatened sharks and rays.

The scientists found recreational catches of sharks and rays had increased over the past six decades around the world, now accounting for 5-6 per cent of the total catches.

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