Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Mongabay
May 1, 2019, 10:38 am349 pts
When fisherfolk in India’s westernmost state of Gujarat find a whale shark tangled in their fishing nets, it’s an unwelcome sight. They can’t legally harvest the protected species, yet the world’s biggest fish can wreak costly havoc on a net. To encourage fishers to spare whale sharks rather than haul…

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