May

“No, it’s NOT YOUR TIME YET!!”

Nobody wants it all.

But why point this out now?

WWF buys $100,000 shark fishing licence to stop someone else from using it

Conservation group WWF Australia has purchased a commercial shark fishing licence on the Great Barrier Reef, with the sole aim of removing it from circulation.

The Great Barrier Reef has been in the news a lot lately, with 93 percent of the reef bleached earlier this year, hordes of Crown of Thorns starfish still causing damage, and plans to dredge the sea floor in a number of areas. But at least fishing is banned in the area… unless you spend enough money on a special licence, that is.

The AU$100,000 licence that WWF Australia has purchased, would have given its owner the right to drag a 1.2 km net (which is included in the purchase of the license) anywhere along the Great Barrier Reef, to target sharks, or other species.

“We’re going to take it out of the water and make sure it doesn’t go fishing,” Conservation director Gilly Llewellyn told the ABC.