A shark made in Mallorca, first of all, on several occasions for panic. Then dealing with the animal triggers a storm of indignation. Experts on the Situation on the Spanish holiday island in the Mediterranean sea.
Hundreds of bathers were on the weekend in Mallorca, screaming, and panic grabbed out of the water. Several times had approached close to the island’s capital, Palma, a blue shark of the coast. “Tiburón!” (Hai) shouted a lot on the beaches of Illetes, Cala Major and Can Pastilla. Fear and worry gave way on Monday, however, more and more of the outrage.
On the home pages of the regional Newspapers, the majority of readers protested against the fact that a Spanish coast guard on Sunday night, caged animal was on the beach of Can Pastilla in ball man near the front of dozens of onlookers euthanized. “Wild!”, wrote a few. A reader complained in “Última Hora”, you’d have to bring the animal to the Aquarium of Palma, and for possible rescue at least two days in length and treat. “But, of course, sleep comes cheaper.” Another reader speculated, it had made short work of the process, because the animal had dared to pass the “buoys of Hoteliers”. The fear of cancellations, but has not been expressed just before the beginning of the record-breaking summer season for the time being. The tourism Association of the island left a request unanswered.
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Shark was injured on the head
Marine biologists from the aquarium of Palma were quoted by media with the words, you have to redeem the approximately one and a half metre long shark, because he had suffered because of a irreparable fishing hook injury to the head. There had been no Alternative. The regional animal welfare – and environmental certified.-Organisation GOB. “Such an oceanic approach the coast only if you have serious health problems. In this case, a hook has caused probably some bad internal injuries,” said GOB speaker Toni Muñóz.
Haisichtungen were nothing Sensational. In may 2016 an even bigger blue shark was spotted in the port of Palma, caught up and back into the open sea. The visitors to the beach trying to calm Muñóz: “these animals pose no real danger for the people”. The expert emphasized that sharks around the world only very rarely for notable attacks on people.
“In the whole of Spain since 1847 a total of only six heavy shark attacks have been registered on people,” he said. There is a smaller Beißattacken, but rarer and less dangerous “than, for example, stings from stingrays, spiders, fish or other sea creatures”.
Criticism of fishing methods
Muñóz and German experts want to the meantime make it clear that The victims here are not the panicked bathers, or even the Hoteliers. No, the victims are the lost and wounded blue shark from the weekend, as well as countless other sea creatures. And the culprit is not the marine biologist forced to do in Can Pastilla to the redemption of the animal. There were more fleets, the fisheries, and the controversial fishing methods.
Because sharks, sea turtles, and other animals bite, often in the Thousands of fish-hooks, which are drawn to the kilometre-long towing lines through the seas. Even if the animals of fishermen to be freed from the hook, and die, many of the injuries. This Muñóz says: “There is in front of the coast of Mallorca and the other Balearic Islands at this time also close to the coast, and many more injured sharks.”
WWF-expert Jörn Ehlers puts his Finger in the same wound. “You can go bathe,” he said to a journalist, and added sarcastically, because there are “worse dangers – plastic networks in which they could get tangled up. But most of the time this happens to the sharks”.
The head of the international shark protection organisation, shark project, Gerhard Wegner, said he was appalled “by” the exaggerated reaction to the sighting of a “malnourished, disoriented, wounded” Blauhais. “That it is reactions after 20 years of educational work, this panic, is madness.” Although there is in the Mediterranean sea is a large shark Population, accidents are extremely rare. The last fatal accident occurred in 1998. It is a different situation in South Africa, where sharks in close to Land, seals are hunted and floats rather dangerous.
Emilio Rappold, dpa)