Upsides of Social Media MarketingNew Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…In February, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora suspended commercial trade in sharks and rays from Ecuador, after the country had failed to take measures to guarantee sharks were being fished sustainably.
According to experts consulted by Mongabay Latam, a lack of transparency has made it difficult to stem this criminal trade.Peru is a transit country for shark fins en route to Asia. But it’s a destination country for shark meat, sold asThe market figures are different in Peru and Ecuador because shark fishing lies on the fringes of the law.
“There is zero transparency and access to information. This should all be public, even more so when Ecuador has aimposed by the European Union for not controlling the illegal fishing supply chain,” said Franklin Vega, editor of the environmental blog Bitácora Ambiental. Without access to the NDFs, key questions, such as whether or not these studies include quotas indicating how many species can be sustainably traded or what scientific information was used to prepare them, remain unanswered.There’s a problem even more fundamental than illegal shark trafficking, according to lawyer Echeverría. “Sharks have a double legal status, as a protected species and as a hydrobiological resource.
On the border, the Specialist Environmental Attorney in Tumbes is investigating other cases of officials who assisted illegal shark trafficking. “We have two cases for illegal granting of rights,” prosecutor Ina Suárez told Mongabay. “Officials from the Regional Production Directorate in Tumbes and the National Fishing Health Organization are being investigated. One of them, unfortunately, is still working.
The means of transportation are varied in order to evade inspections, Suárez said. “Not only are there refrigerated trucks, but also buses that carry vats of sharks. There are also motorcycle trucks that are hired to transport illegal goods coming from Ecuador,” she said. In one recent seizure at the border, on Feb.