Jan 12 2008
Norway ban fishing for porbeagle sharks
The porbeagle shark is extremely vulnerable to over fishing. As most other sharks the porbeagle reproduces slowly and the stock in the Northeast Atlantic is now in a critical situation. The IUCN-World Conervation Union have the porbeagle on their Red List and they consider the population in the Northeast Atlantic as “critically endangered”.
ICES (The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) has recommended ending targeted fisheries for porbeagle in the Northeastern Atlantic. Sweden has already protected the porbeagle. Norway has fished porbeagle sharks for decades, but in the last 10 years the catches have dropped dramatically. The Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal affairs has decided to follow the recommendation from ICES.
A new (01.01.08) regulation for Norwegian fishermen forbid targeted fisheries for porbeagle sharks. The regulation allows vessels to land porbeagle sharks taken as bycatch. The Norwegian fishery for porbeagle (using long line) is then a part of the history.
It’s nice to hear hat countries are trying to stop the over fishing of particular species… we should all have learned a long time ago that this is awful for the ecosystem and us being part of it obviously
bans should be put on endangered species, also limits for some ocean life is in line as well