It’s electric: Scientists develop cheap way to keep sharks off fishing hooks

Mongabay
Feb 23, 2026, 2:08 pm174 pts
Unintentional catch is a big reason that more than a hundred shark species are threatened with extinction. Yet creating a small electric field around fishing hooks using cheap inputs — zinc and graphite — is enough to keep many away, a new study indicates. In coastal waters off Florida, small…

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