{"id":176710,"date":"2025-09-23T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176710\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:34:12","slug":"you-could-purchase-endangered-shark-meat-and-never-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176710\/","title":{"rendered":"You could purchase endangered shark meat\u2014and never know it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jacquet points out that under the Endangered Species Act, endangered marine fish such as sharks do not have the same protections as endangered freshwater fish, terrestrial and marine mammals. Bridging this gap would help make the sale of endangered sharks illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe have done a good job protecting marine mammals in the United States. We have not done well by marine fishes,\u201d\u00a0 Jacquet says. \u201cIt&#8217;s high time we sort of look that issue in the face, and this study is a great contribution to encouraging that conversation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">And the issue is not confined to the U.S. For example, in Australia, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0956713523000063\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a study published in in 2023<\/a> found that threatened shark species were being sold under the generic term \u2018flake\u2019 in fish and chips shops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThe rates of mislabeling of shark products and other seafood vary significantly worldwide, and have been reported in South Africa, Brazil, the European Union, the UK, Canada, and China\u201d among others, says Ashleigh Sharrad, a research assistant at the University of Adelaide and author of the 2023 study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For the U.S., Ryburn offers one possible solution: \u201csellers in the U.S. should be required to have species-specific labeling on their shark meat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacquet points out that under the Endangered Species Act, endangered marine fish such as sharks do not have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-176710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}