How Peruvian cockfighters could tip the scales for endangered sawfish

Mongabay
Mar 25, 2025, 4:00 am343 ptsTop
Martín Maceda can still rattle off the exact date of his most memorable fishing encounter. On March 1, 2014, he was 8 kilometers (5 miles) off the north coast of Peru, hauling in the catch like he had every day for decades, when he saw a colossal sharklike creature trapped in the net. He quickly realized it…

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