Chippies have been promoting shark meat to unwitting grub lovers, boffins have claimed.
Scientists say demand had been steadily rising and it’s often offered as unlabelled “mystery meat”, as they known as for extra focused measures and higher enforcement. Nine out of 10 chippies within the south of England used shark meat with out their clients’ data, an Exeter University research present in 2019.
Boffins examined 15 samples from websites the place they discovered 10 have been spiny dogfish and the opposite 5 have been starry smooth-hound.
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Biologist Leonardo Feitosa stated: “We have seen the demand for shark fins decreasing and the demand for shark meat increasing, with Brazil and Italy being the main consumers. Because shark meat is a relatively cheap substitute for other fish, there is considerable mislabelling.”
In that very same 12 months 80million sharks have been killed, up from 76million in 2015, researchers from Dalhousie University in Canada discovered. Some 25million of these killed have been threatened species.
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The shark deaths are largely concentrated in areas just like the Coral Triangle which stretches throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. Just six international locations have been liable for half of all killings. Indonesia represented a whopping 19%.
Dr Darcy Bradley, co-author of the Dalhousie paper, stated: “We found that despite myriad regulations intended to curb shark overfishing, the total number of sharks being killed by fisheries each year is not decreasing. If anything, it’s slightly increasing.”
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