Back in March this year, the Maldivian government announced their plans to implement a complete ban on shark fishing across the entire archipelago within a 12 nautical mile radius.
Now, at the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission, it was made clear that this initiative will be in full effect by March 2010.
Dr Hussein Rasheed Hassan, the Maldives Minister of State for Fisheries and Agriculture, stated “We have realised that it is more economically viable to leave the shark and other sea creatures unharmed because the country currently earns about $7 million annually from the diving industry.” (more…)
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