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Critically endangered 'fossil fish' dragged up from the deep by shark hunters

feed to stay on top of the news. They can be found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia. However, due to the continued interest in shark fins and oil in the Chinese marketplace, fishers in southwestern Madagascar are posing a threat to the coelacanths’ lives as they set gill-nets in deeper waters called jarifa gill-nets. The Western Indian Ocean species, Latimeria chalumnae, has been classified as critically endangered by the IUCN, while a similar Indonesia...
United States Comoro Islands Indian Ocean Michael Bruton Andrew Cooke West Indian Ocean

Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light

Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light by Tony Carnie on 12 May 2021 Undersea canyons off Madagascar may turn out to be the Indian Ocean epicentre for coelacanths, the remarkable “fossil fish” which re-surfaced from apparent extinction in 1938. Coelacanths have turned up with unexpected frequency in gill-nets set in deep waters to catch sharks for new, commercial markets. A worrying trend in recent coelacanth c...
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