2007 WildAid Shark Report
July 21, 2007 @ 07:14 AM (EST)
Source: Wildaid.org
As shark populations plummet worldwide, Marine Reserves are the new target of illegal fisheries. Many of the world's marine protected areas, such as the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Islands, are now regularly fished illegally for increasingly valuable shark fins...
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