Co-operative members are being recruited to take part in egg hunts with a difference – they will be looking for shark eggs on beaches.
The Shark Trust’s “great eggcase hunt” will see volunteers heading to the coast to search for the eggcases, known as “mermaid’s purses”, in which the young of many skates and rays and some sharks are laid.
They will use an identification guide to discover which species hatched from the egg and record the location where it was found, as part of conservation efforts to ensure the UK’s shark species are adequately protected. Recent estimates suggest almost 100 million sharks are being caught worldwide by commercial fishing fleets, with sharks’ fins being used for a soup delicacy in Asia….
Belfast Telegraph. 15/03/2013. Read the article ‘Beach hunt bids to find shark eggs’
