A blog about the great scuba diving around Fiji. Some of the highlights of living and working in Fiji is the diving on the soft coral reefs with sharks, mantas and teeming life on the reefs.
Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Shark Declines Threaten Shellfish Stocks, Study Says
Dramatic declines of large North Atlantic sharks due to overfishing have upset the balance of entire marine ecosystems, a new study shows. Now scallops, clams, and oysters are paying the price. Smaller sharks, skates, and rays that are normally eaten by the large sharks have become so abundant that they are ravaging shellfish stocks, the researchers say.
Read more at National Geographic...
Labels:
conservation,
environment,
national geographic,
scuba,
scubadiving,
shark
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