"To find out if sharks could become tangled in the nets, the study authors attached satellite tags to 29 silky sharks in the Mozambique Channel and near the Republic of Seychelles. The movements recorded by the tags suggested that four of those sharks became caught in the nets near the surface, the team reports in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Divers also visited 51 FADs and found that 35 percent of them had ensnared one or more silky sharks."
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:26:40 +0000