Underwater image of fish at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador, taken on March 8, 2024. — AFP picPUERTO AYORA , March 18 — Industrial fishing boats hover menacingly on the edges of Ecuador’s Galapagos Marine Reserve, where schools of multicoloured fish and hammerhead sharks frolic in the protected Pacific waters.
The sharks, turtles, iguanas, sea lions and fish that thrive in the Galapagos “don’t understand political boundaries,” Stuart Banks, a senior marine scientist at the Charles Darwin Foundation, told AFP on board Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise research vessel.“So they’re going to be moving between different territories and that’s when they’re most at risk, particularly to things like industrial fishing and bycatch.
The reserve of nearly 200,000 square kilometers is one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse with more than 3,000 species, many of them found nowhere else. For his part, Daniel Armijos was in charge of underwater video monitoring of fish numbers and prevalence. Marine reserve employee Eduardo Espinoza, in charge of day-to-day monitoring, told AFP the archipelago is a rare sanctuary for hammerhead sharks, whose fins are a delicacy in some Asian countries.
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