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Greenland fishermen are seeking to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks due to damage caused by the sharks tangling in fishing gear, which costs local fishers tens of thousands of dollars annually. The Avannaata municipality on Greenland’s west coast approved a measure offering $45 per shark heart but later blocked it amid concerns over the sustainability and biological sensitivity of the species, listed as "vulnerable" since 2020 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Critics argue that addressing underlying issues such as overfishing and excess fishing boats would better resolve conflicts between fishers and sharks.
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Local fishermen in Greenland are facing significant economic losses due to Greenland sharks, which can grow up to 20 feet long and live over 400 years, fouling fishing gear. In February, the Avannaata municipality on Greenland’s west coast approved a plan to cull approximately 1,000 of these sharks, offering a bounty of $45 per heart. Fishermen like Henrik Jensen reported losing around 6,000 hooks and nearly $4,500 worth of gear daily in krone terms. Despite support from the mayor for protecting fishermen’s income, conservationists criticized the plan, citing fears that it would harm an already vulnerable species with a delayed maturity rate at 150 years old.
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Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks — which can live over 400 years, making them the longest-living vertebrates on Earth — with one municipality offering $45 per heart before the measure was blocked.
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measure → want → heart
The mass-culling was approved by the Avannaata municipality on Greenland’s west coast in February, answering pleas from local fishermen who complained the lumbering 20-foot sharks frequently foul themselves in fishing lines at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars.
“This year I’ve lost around 6,000 hooks in total.
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I → approve → total
Sometimes we lose 30,000 Danish krone a day,” 27-year-old fisherman Henrik Jensen told The Guardian.
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Jensen → lose → Guardian
Those 30,000 krone equate to about $4,500 worth of gear regularly lost in a single day — which prompted local leaders to bring the Greenland shark culling proposal to a vote earlier this year.
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which → equate → vote
“We need to safeguard the income of fishers and the catch so that we can continue to eat the foods that we have relied on for generations,” said Avannaata Mayor Lars Erik Gabrielsen.
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Gabrielsen → need → generations
But the measure was soon blocked by critics who feared it would do irreversible damage to the extremely unique Greenland shark, which becomes sexually mature at the old age of 150 and is believed to gestate its young for over a decade — meaning populations can take an extremely long time to recover.
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populations → block → time
“They are probably — biologically — the most sensitive species in the ocean to overfishing,” said Nick Dulvy, a Simon Fraser University marine conservationist.
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Dulvy → say → overfishing
Greenland sharks were also listed as a “vulnerable” species in 2020 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, PEOPLE reported.
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PEOPLE → list → Nature
The sharks largely live in the cold coastal waters around Greenland, northern Canada and Europe, and can travel about 1,240 miles per year — a fact the Oceans North Kalaallit Nunaat (ONKN) said would negate the culling, arguing new sharks would simply arrive to replace the old.
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sharks → live → old
“Initiating a bounty system of this magnitude is a risky path,” ONKN said of the proposed culling plan — while cautioning that even though it was blocked this time, it could still arise in the future.
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it → initiate → future
“The shark is the visible, tangible version of a problem whose real drivers are structural,” said ONKN director Jenseeraq Poulsen, arguing that overfishing and an excess of boats across Greenland fisheries were the real problems the shark culling was tying to address.
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culling → say → fisheries
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