Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast

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LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Feet from the ocean, four sharks and a ray lie dead on the wind-battered sand.

Above them stands Wilfrido Arends, 46.

The blade of a short knife glints in his hand.

Carefully, he bends down to cut a small fin from the underside of one shark — an endangered species known […]

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