The International Green Area Association stressed “the intensification of surveillance of infringements on marine life and the enforcement of explicit laws which are supposed to protect certain species.” “What we are witnessing is an irregularity that requires exceptional measures to deter the fisheries and biodiversity of our seas.”
In a statement issued after it was documented, a shark was killed by a hunting rifle in al-Naameh area. It said that it had contacted the Ministry of Agriculture, which immediately moved to take legal action.
The Association called “what has been circulating information through social networking sites that the shark invaded the Sea of Tire, and that it was shown Tuesday chasing some fishermen and was taken out of it after killing him,” pointing out that “after contact with fishermen and witnesses confirmed that The shark was hunted in the Naameh area (south of Beirut) and was killed by a wild hunting weapon.
Noting that the Ministry of Agriculture responded, “We received several reports to move and keep up with this, as well as information that confirmed that dynamite was used by fishermen, after it was found that there was a large amount of fish in the area, which contributed to the gathering of sharks” “The presence of a hunting weapon in a naval vessel remains controversial.”
She confirmed that “during the scrutiny of some of the pictures we found other irregularities, which doubles the size of the legal violations committed by the actor, and places the parties concerned in their responsibility to crack down on these violations and not allowed to repeat.
She pointed out that “the Society used an expert on the marine life at the American University Professor Michel Parish, who assured us that according to the images supplied to it and the details that emerged that this type is the closest to the type of shark Hariri, and belongs to the family” Sharks Carcharhinidae and its name is Silky shark and French soyeux Requin, which is called the soft shark, hence it is called in Arabic (the “shark”). It spends most of its time in depths varying between the surface and depth of 500 meters. It can be found in the western Mediterranean, The remainder of its slope is spread in tropical and semi-tropical waters Tropical “.
The statement called for the Green Area to “insist on punishing violators and respect for the laws in force, especially that there are clear faces in the images can lead to a killer shark.”
“This type of shark does not pose any danger to human activity at sea, except in cases of human provocation, so that it attracts the smell of blood during hunting activity by sea ice, and can be attacked with the aim of getting fish, not humans.”
