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More than 3,000 shark fins confiscated in Colombia by AFP Staff Writers Bogota (AFP) Sept 25, 2021 Thousands of shark fins were confiscated by Colombian authorities before they could be illegally shipped to Hong Kong, officials said. Bogota "seized 3,493 shark fins and 117 kilos of fish bladders that were en route to Hong Kong", environmental ministry head Carolina Urrutia said. The haul highlights the continued demand for shark fin, served at wedding banquets in some Chinese communities and falsely believed to have medicinal properties. The fins, removed from 900 to 1,000 sharks measuring up to five metres, were found on Friday in five boxes in Bogota's busiest airport El Dorado. Taken "more than three species" of shark, the fins were likely harvested in "illegal fishing", said Urrutia, condemning "the irreversible environmental damage to Colombia's marine ecosystem". National police will handle the investigation, she added. Shark fishing has been banned in Colombia -- which is home to 76 of the 500 known shark varieties -- since 2020 in an attempt to stem Asia's fin trade. The sale and consumption of shark fin is not illegal in Hong Kong but must be licensed, and has remained stubbornly popular despite years of campaigning. Some of the ocean's most vital apex predators, shark populations have been decimated over the last few decades with finning and industrial longline fishing the main culprits.
Report: Global warming is causing 'unprecedented changes' to oceans Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2021 Human-induced global warming is "causing unprecedented changes" to the oceans including warming waters, decreasing ice levels and rising seas, according to a recently published report by more than 150 scientists. Published Wednesday, the annual Ocean State Report 5 by the Copernicus Marine Service and Mercator Ocean International is a far-reaching analysis of the health of the world's oceans. The report published in the Journal of Operational Oceanography said that globally, sea temperat ... read more
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