DEMA has announced that it is opposing moves by the Florida Fish and Natural world Commission to ban the feeding of sharks in the federal waters of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
While the transfer looks on the start well-supposed and objectives to ban fishermen from the use of “chum” to appeal to sharks and then resolve them, a nearer note unearths other concerns. DEMA argues that by imposing a blanket ban on all shark feeding activities, tour operators who use chum to appeal to sharks for recreational divers to photograph them would undergo a excessive economic impact.
As allotment of its argument, DEMA submitted learn highlighting the minimal environmental and security impact that “provisioning ecotourism” has on the species. DEMA cited several learn sources as well to highlighting a paper offering a nearer, extra sustainable solution.
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Sam Helmyhttps://www.deeperblue.com
Sam Helmy is a TDI/SDI Trainer Trainer, and PADI Workers and Trimix Trainer. Diving for 28 years, a dive pro for 14, I contain traveled extensively chasing my ardour for diving. I am obsessive about every little thing diving, with a eager ardour in exploration, Sharks and colossal stuff, Photography and Decompression idea. Diving is indubitably the one and top ardour that has stayed with me my complete life!
