‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

4 days ago by supersquirrel to c/tidalpunk

While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success
corsicanguppy 3 points 4 days ago

This is terrible. While zoos can be a huge part of careful breeding toward recovery of a species, it needs to be run by a proper public-run non-profit organization.

Wait. This is America. Maybe wait a few months or years and hope like hell sanity gets its brief impotent time in the spotlight again.

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