Basking Shark In Danger Of Extinction
May 6, 2007 @ 05:56 AM (EST)
Source: Iol.co.za
Canada's giant basking sharks face extinction because of government measures decades ago to stop them disrupting salmon fishing, an official committee on threatened species said on Tuesday.
"Up until 1970, there was a government sponsored programme to eradicate these sharks because they were interfering with the net," Jeff Hutchings, president of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, told AFP...
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