World’s slowest sharks could be culled as trawlers compete for cod and halibut
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The controversy has emerged in the Avannaata municipality of Greenland, where an earlier proposal to kill 1,000 sharks offered fishers 300 Danish krone (£34) for every shark heart.The plan was later abandoned after the Greenland government questioned its legality, but conservationists fear a cull could return.For fishers in the waters around Ilulissat, the sharks are a longstanding and costly problem.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Henrik Jensen, a 27-year-old halibut fisher from Greenland's west coast, said: "When I accidentally catch a shark, I bring it to my dogs.
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I don't let it back down because the sharks bully me and cut my lines."Mr Jensen said he has lost some 6,000 hooks this year alone, with losses sometimes reaching 30,000 Danish krone (£3,440) in a single day.
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