{"id":15524,"date":"2025-07-22T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15524\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:42:08","slug":"endangered-shark-featured-on-restaurant-menu-says-conservation-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15524\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered shark featured on restaurant menu, says conservation group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960px-Thresher.jpg?v=1753161540\" alt=\"Endangered shark featured on restaurant menu, says conservation group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960px-Thresher-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Thomas Alexander\/Wikipedia]<\/p>\n<p>A marine protection organization has filed a complaint with the country\u2019s fisheries authority seeking stricter protections for endangered species after a restaurant in the popular tourist destination of Halkidiki, northern Greece, was found serving a species of shark whose fishing is supposed to be strictly prohibited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 60% of shark and ray products on the Greek market are either incorrectly labeled or not labeled at all. This often serves as a cover for the trade of protected species, which are prohibited from being caught and sold,\u201d iSea said in its complaint, noting that the particular restaurant was selling bigeye thresher shark.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization spotted the violation on a social media video advertising the restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Thomas Alexander\/Wikipedia] A marine protection organization has filed a complaint with the country\u2019s fisheries authority seeking stricter protections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[13775,49,48,295,44,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-15524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal-protection","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}