Shrinking Indonesian shark fisheries spur a national action plan

Mongabay
By Rebecca KesslerAug 20, 2015, 2:37 pm246 pts
Like all big fishing ports in Indonesia, Tanjung Luar is one that you can smell before you see. At 7 a.m., it is a thick crowd of fishwives, turmeric painted on their faces as traditional sunblock and sarongs wrapped high on their tummies, hawking their wares. Every single one of them knows where the shark…

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