Experts say that indiscriminate fishing off Peru and Ecuador was threatening many species, including the blue shark, mako shark, and hammerhead shark
At a market in northern Peru, fishermen and traders barter over mutilated sharks, loading the fish onto motorised rickshaws. Much of the meat will be eaten locally, but the removed fins are headed elsewhere: China.
That lucrative trade is threatening species of sharks off the coasts of Peru and neighbouring Ecuador, according to marine biologists. In Peru, the fishing and selling of legally-caught shark fins is allowed. But there are far larger populations of sharks off the coast of Ecuador, where such activity is outlawed.Alicia Kuroiwa, a Peruvian marine biologist and shark expert at Oceana, said three-quarters of the fins exported from Peru originate from Ecuador and are smuggled illegally across the border in refrigerated trucks.Fishermen can claim the sharks were caught in nets unintentionally, allowing them to be sold.
Under the name"tollo," various shark species are regularly consumed domestically in the popular Peruvian ceviche dish. However, the fins are harvested and exported to Asia.
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