{"id":5152,"date":"2012-01-02T17:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2012-01-02T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:39:17","slug":"bali-alarming-shark-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"Bali – Alarming Shark Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Desy Nurhayati<\/strong>
\nThe
\nJakarta Post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Marine scientists have announced that shark hunting<\/a> in waters offshore Bali and surrounding areas has
\nreached an alarming rate, threatening the animal\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

Ketut Sarjana Putra, marine director of Conservation
\nInternational Indonesia (CII), said on Tuesday that the massive catches had
\ntaken place in the waters around Nusa Penida, some six kilometers to the north
\nof the island and around the Tulamben area.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany shark species are endangered, and this
\nexcessive degree of hunting<\/a> could threaten their population, as most of the
\nsharks that are caught are adult females,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He explained that the hunt did not target certain
\nspecies of sharks. However, the primary species that is targeted around Bali is
\nthe thresher shark.<\/p>\n

Several months ago, a team from CII held a marine
\nsurvey in waters around Bali. During their 200 hours of diving, they only found
\nthree sharks.<\/p>\n

It was a sign of overfishing, Ketut said, adding that
\nsharks acted as indicators of the ocean\u2019s health, and that healthy oceans had a
\nbalanced food chain.<\/p>\n

Marthen Welly from the Coral Triangle Center said the
\nsharks were not caught in Nusa Penida, but around the Lombok Strait and the
\nwaters off the eastern coast of Bali, including Kusamba in Karangasem, but that
\nall of the sharks were then transported to Bali.<\/p>\n

We found out that some fishermen from Nusa Penida
\nalso caught sharks, along with those from Lombok, he said. The sharks were not
\nonly hunted for their fins, but also for their meat, he added.<\/p>\n

Welly has no exact data on shark population in the
\narea, but the local fishermen usually catch around 50 to 70 sharks every season.<\/p>\n

Shark hunting<\/a> in Bali had reached an alarming rate. It needed to
\nbe reduced, or even totally halted, because sharks took a long time to breed;
\nbut the hunting<\/a> was increasing, he said.<\/p>\n

Welly regretted that Indonesia had yet to introduce a
\nregulation outlawing shark fishing, despite the fact that many shark species had
\nbeen declared endangered.<\/p>\n

Both Ketut and Welly said the ideal population of
\nsharks remained questionable because there had been no comprehensive study
\ncarried out.<\/p>\n

Data produced by the Bali Shark Project on thresher
\nshark fishing in Nusa Penida during September and October revealed that there
\nwere dozens of sharks ready to be transported from an old ferry terminal running
\nfrom Sampalan (Nusa Penida) to Kusamba in mainland Klungkung.<\/p>\n

More than 90 percent of them were pelagic thresher
\nsharks, which would be brought to Bali, and later transported again for national
\nand international trade.<\/p>\n

According to local fishermen and ferry workers, the
\naverage number caught per day was 70, but the record day during the current
\nseason saw 125 sharks killed.<\/p>\n

During the two-month hunting<\/a> season, as many as 4,500 pelagic thresher sharks
\nmay be killed.<\/p>\n

The area is also fished by boats that sell their
\ncatches directly to Bali and also to Lombok. The total catch may be much larger
\nand could involve bigger ships unloading their catches directly to Benoa Port in
\nsouth Bali.<\/p>\n

Ninety percent of the sharks are female pelagic
\nthresher sharks, and most of them are pregnant, normally with two pups, usually
\none male and one female.<\/p>\n

Early every morning along the beaches of Nusa Penida,
\nthe sharks are gutted and their massive tail fins cut for easier transportation.
\nThen the fetal sharks are disposed of into the ocean with the rest of the
\nguts.<\/p>\n

From the beach they are transported to the wooden
\nferry terminal in Sampalan, then onto the ferry to Kusamba, where they are
\nprocessed: the fins, heads and remaining guts are cut off and separated from the
\nbody.<\/p>\n

Most of the meat goes to freezer facilities at Benoa
\nand from there to Java, while the fins disappear into the international market
\nbefore ending up on menus in restaurants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Desy Nurhayati
\nThe
\nJakarta Post
\nMarine scientists have announced that shark hunting in waters offshore Bali and surrounding areas has
\nreached an alarming rate, threatening the animal\u2019s population.
\nKetut Sarjana Putra, marine director of Conservation
\nInternational Indonesia (CII), said on Tuesday that the massive catches had
\ntaken place in the waters around Nusa Penida, some six kilometers to the north
\nof the island and around the Tulamben area.
\n\u201cMany shark species are endangered, and this
\nexcessive degree of hunting could threaten their population, as most of the
\nsharks that are caught are adult females,\u201d he said.
\nHe explained that the hunt did not target certain
\nspecies of sharks. However, the primary species that is targeted around Bali is
\nthe thresher shark.
\nSeveral months ago, a team from CII held a marine
\nsurvey in waters around Bali. During their 200 hours of diving, they only found
\nthree sharks.
\nIt was a sign of overfishing, Ketut said, adding that
\nsharks acted as indicators of the ocean\u2019s health, and that healthy oceans …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-report","category-sharks"],"yoast_head":"\nBali - Alarming Shark Hunts - Divetalking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5152\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bali - Alarming Shark Hunts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5152\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-02T22:39:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5152#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5152\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/02d5721103fd9d171fcc8cfb74d80947\"},\"headline\":\"Bali – Alarming Shark Hunts\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-02T22:39:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5152\"},\"wordCount\":639,\"articleSection\":[\"Reference\",\"Report\",\"Sharks\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5152\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5152\",\"name\":\"Bali - 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