Pay-to-release program reduces shark deaths, but backfires in some cases

Mongabay
Jun 5, 2025, 4:15 am119 pts
Researchers behind an incentive-based fisheries program in Indonesia have reported a drop in shark and ray bycatch, but also warned of an unexpected rise in the intentional capture of these threatened species. The program pays some small-scale fishers in Aceh province, on the island of Sumatra, and on Lombok…

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