Fish and chip shops serving endangered shark

[Judi Lynn]

Feb 1, 2019
It is ‘almost impossible’ for consumers to know what they are buying, scientists say

Endangered sharks are commonly being sold at chip shops and fishmongers in the UK, an investigation has found.

DNA tests carried out at the University of Exeter found that the majority of fish samples were spiny dogfish, a small shark which is endangered in Europe and classed as vulnerable worldwide.

Of the 78 samples from chip shops in southern England, roughly 90% were found to be shark.

Scientists also found fins of scalloped hammerhead sharks, which are globally endangered, being sold by an Asian food wholesaler in England supplying Chinese restaurants, The Times reports.

More:
https://www.theweek.co.uk/99335/fish-and-chip-shops-serving-endangered-shark

[democratisphere]

1. Humans just don't give a sh't about wiping out other species

making humans the most dangerous cause for the mass extinction of life on this planet.

[Sinistrous]

2. A spiny dogfish was the subject for disection for each student

in my college biology lab.

Alas poor spiny, I knew him well.