SHARK OVERFISHING IS WIPING OUT NORTH AMERICAN SCALLOPS
April 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE, in OttawaTHE OVERFISHING of big sharks has wiped out North Carolina's scallop fishery is inhibiting oyster and clam populations along the US Atlantic Coast claims a study led by Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.Purposeful fishing and by-catches have decimated the largest predatory sharks, such as the bull, great white, dusky and hammerheads, allowing ray, skate and other small shark prey species to explode. The problem: they eat scallops.The US east coast cownose ray population alone is now estimated at over 40 million. They grow more ...
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