the mundo good. I see things. Yes. Combine restorations tonight a sobering
outlook for sharks on Reefs. A
recent study found Overfishing
is driving reef sharks to
extinction. And this has no
excuse littering, raising the
limits of many. And what species
of sharks can be fished in
federal waters. Local tense
lawyer Gary has don’t transfer
treasure. There’s a lot of areas
where sharks should be and
they’re not and that is very
conservative scientists sounding
alarm. Reef sharks are fast
across our planet Ocean over is
driving important into
extinction. So what we’ve seen
is even that are fairly common
have in population sizes maybe
60 or 70. Okay we’re off. Marine
biologist Mike Whitehouse led
the team from FSU that more than
150 scientists from all over the
world for this ambitious five
year study to dock document
what’s happening to our sharks.
What we found is that they’re
virtually extinct on 20% of the
reefs out there and in trouble
on more than half the project.
Global fin print focused on the
five main species that live on
coral reefs, gray reef sharks,
black tip reef, white tip reef
nurse and Caribbean reef sharks
. That includes here in South
Florida. I mean, the Florida
Keys and our reef track that
comes up through South Florida.
Critically important to us. And
we need to have sharks as part
those ecosystems. Researchers
Set up bait boxes and underwater
video to survey almost 400 reefs
in 67 countries and territories
, analyzing over 20000 hours of
footage. But while the study
basically found shark depletions
all over the, it also found more
robust populations in Marine
protect areas and regions with.
Strong fishing limits in place.
We have pretty good fisheries in
the US had regulations in place
for a while that includes
Florida where shark populations
have started to recover. And
what we see here is we’re doing
better than most places but we
aren’t where we need to be,
especially for the reef sharks.
We need those to grow. But local
anglers are pushing back. Shark
on him saying become more and
more difficult land a fish with
more and sharks stealing. Their
catch. It’s literally every hour
of day we’re encountering sharks
out. It is like nonstop. The
situation and prompting NOAA’s
national marine fisheries
Service to consider making
changes to existing rules that
limit how many the size and what
species of sharks can fished and
retained. Basically undoing
years of protect the regulations
that have helped sharks come
back. In your opinion, do we
have an overpopulation sharks in
Florida? No. No, we don’t. So
you may be seeing some
populations starting to come
back up. That’s very different
from saying they overpopulated
and. They’ve exploded by simply
some sign of recovery from being
overfished. And scientists say
also a sign of a healthy ocean.
Sharks keep fisheries balance
and prevent ocean. Panda mix by
eating disease and distress.
Marine life. If anything, the
study says sharks need more
protections, not less. And
outlines specific
recommendations like Gillnets in
some places creating protected
areas, controlling the effort of
, long lines. And that way, if
we do it in enough places. Then
we can see sharks rebuilding. We
also see that sharks and people
can coexist. So if you have
strong fisheries regulations,
marine protected areas, no
lines, no gillnets, we can’t
people getting the resources
they need out of oceans. But
Also healthy shark populations.
Noah has yet to decide if it
will pass Amendment 16. That
would modify shark management
regulations that have been place
since 2006. Comments just
wrapped up this week. And while
scientists admit depredation are
on the rise, solution is not to
go out there and more sharks but
rather developing innovations
and technologies to sharks from
fishing lines. We have a link to
NOAA’s proposed amendment. We’re
following this very closely.
We’ll let you know how and when
rules. We also have the full on
coral reef sharks. It’s All on
our website to scan that QR.
They’ll take you straight to the