{"id":414649,"date":"2026-04-24T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414649\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:58:10","slug":"are-we-waiting-for-this-species-to-go-extinct-inside-the-fight-to-save-rare-angel-sharks-off-west-coast-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414649\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Are we waiting for this species to go extinct?\u2019 Inside the fight to save rare angel sharks off west coast of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWithin Ireland\u2019s flagship marine park, a critically endangered shark \u2013 and the fishers catching it \u2013 are feeling the squeeze. But can we save both?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Concerns: Several angel sharks were caught as bycatch while fishing for crayfish, according to a Marine Institure report. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tyImages_2197606578.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Concerns: Several angel sharks were caught as bycatch while fishing for crayfish, according to a Marine Institure report. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s as rare as a snow leopard and is shaped like a snow angel. The angel shark is one of the world\u2019s rarest and most vulnerable sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Yet, in Irish waters earmarked for conservation, this critically endangered species is coming under threat from a long-standing fishery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Within Ireland\u2019s flagship marine park, a critically endangered shark \u2013 and the fishers catching it \u2013 are feeling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,279],"class_list":["post-414649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}