{"id":15170,"date":"2020-07-28T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-07-28\/la-alarmante-situacion-de-los-tiburones.html"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T10:28:24","slug":"la-alarmante-situacion-de-los-tiburones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/la-alarmante-situacion-de-los-tiburones\/","title":{"rendered":"The alarming situation of sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger shark 40% lives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0165783619303170\">with a hook hooked in its snout<\/a> that will probably stay there for the rest of its life, and one 20% has wounds that clearly show its interaction with fishing systems. That&#039;s what counts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0165783619303170\">recent study published in <i>Fisheries Research<\/i><\/a> who observed 55 specimens over eight years in French Polynesia. Fishing area and shark habitat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/es\/content\/un-tercio-de-los-tiburones-oceanicos-amenazados-de-extincion\">in danger of extinction<\/a>According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), they overlap. These predators either end up in the market because they cannot escape or live their entire lives with a hook in their mouth or wounds. \u201cImagine that those we see are those who have resisted. &quot;We have to think about all those who have probably ended up dead at the bottom of the sea,&quot; he warns. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericclua.com\/\">Eric Clua<\/a>, author of the study, researcher in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.criobe.pf\/\"> CRIOBE (Insular Research Center and Environmental Observatory) <\/a>in French Polynesia and scientific director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharkmed.org\/\">Shark Med protection and recovery association<\/a>. \u201cControl and protection efforts are still not enough,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-07-28\/la-alarmante-situacion-de-los-tiburones.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several studies show the decline of shark populations and conclude that marine protected areas are insufficient. The situation in the Mediterranean is the most disturbing<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15232,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}