Greenland fishers propose $45 bounty per heart to cull 1,000 sharks that can live 400 years; then the plan was halted after the government questioned its legality |
Greenland shark, Image: Saul Goner, SeaPics Greenland became the centre of an unusual dispute over one of the world’s longest-lived vertebrates after the municipal council of Avannaata approved a proposal to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks. Under the scheme, fishermen would have received 300 Danish kroner, about $45, for each shark heart they brought in. The…
