16 hours agoShareSaveVictoria Gill, Kate Stephens and Gwyndaf Hughes,BBC News science teamandAhmed Nour,BBC News ArabicShareSaveVirginia Tech/Blue MarineJames Glancy from Blue Marine told BBC News that his own investigation found multiple white sharks on sale in Tunisian fishing markets. But, he said, there was a paradoxical element of hope in the fact that white sharks were turning up for sale.”It shows that there is wildlife left,” he told BBC News. “And if we can preserve this, there is a chance of recovery.” What can be done? In poorer communities in North Africa, fishers who catch sharks might face the choice of whether to feed their family, or return a threatened species to the ocean.Sara Almabruk from the Libyan Marine Biology Society says that most of the catches happening in North African waters are accidental, but adds: “Why would they throw sharks back into the sea when they need food for their children?”If you support them and train them in more sustainable fishing, they will not catch white sharks – or any sharks.”James Glancy from Blue Marine added that if countries around the Mediterranean worked together, “there is hope. “But, he added, “we’ve got to act very quickly”. …
