Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light

Mongabay
May 12, 2021, 7:24 pm254 pts
Demand for shark fins and oil has led fishers in southwestern Madagascar to set gill-nets in deeper waters. They are finding — and possibly harming — previously-unknown populations of these West Indian Ocean coelacanths. The landing of the first living coelacanth off the coast of South Africa made world…

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