The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the US government’s premier scientific agencies, with a mission “to better understand our natural world and help protect its precious resources,” is helping drive the killing of sensitive shark species by encouraging reckless sport fishing, according to an investigation.
NOAA directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funding into instances where sharks bite off a piece of a different fish that’s already been hooked, encounters known as “depredations” or “bite-offs,” according to government documents obtained by The Nation.
