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Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace España activists from the Arctic Sunrise attempt to free marine life from a longline. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and crew are exposing the industrial fishing of sharks in the North Atlantic during July 2022. EU fishing fleets from Spain and Portugal are consistently fishing in shark nursery grounds in the North Atlantic using longlines. The North Atlantic’s longline fishery nominally targets swordfish, but has transitioned to rely on shark bycatch to remain profitable. Regulations have failed to keep pace putting sharks, a keystone species, at severe risk. Deliberately ignoring recommendations by scientists and civil society has led to North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks becoming endangered. Global shark populations have plummeted by 70% in the last 50 years.
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Activists Free Marine Life in the North Atlantic. © Pedro Armestre / Greenpeace
Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace España activists from the Arctic Sunrise attempt to free marine life from a longline. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and crew are exposing the industrial fishing of sharks in the North Atlantic during July 2022. EU fishing fleets from Spain and Portugal are consistently fishing in shark nursery grounds in the North Atlantic using longlines. The North Atlantic’s longline fishery nominally targets swordfish, but has transitioned to rely on shark bycatch to remain profitable. Regulations have failed to keep pace putting sharks, a keystone species, at severe risk. Deliberately ignoring recommendations by scientists and civil society has led to North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks becoming endangered. Global shark populations have plummeted by 70% in the last 50 years.
© Pedro Armestre / Greenpeace
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Greenpeace investigators collecting samples
Greenpeace investigators collecting samples
© Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
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Heaps Better: A Greenpeace Podcast. © Ash Berdebes
Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s Legal and Governance Advisor Katrina Bullock is interviewed by hosts Jess Hamilton and Ash Berdebes. Heaps Better is a sit-down-and-get-it-done audio guide to turn climate anxiety into action. With hope, humour and hard facts, hosts Ash Berdebes and Jess Hamilton – two regular Australians concerned about inaction on climate change – hit up leading experts, scientists, economists and everyday heroes to get a simple, accessible and actionable answer to the question that has so many of us beat: What the heck can I do about climate change, and how can I make the biggest possible difference?
© Ash Berdebes
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