Last Friday, we gave you a small snippet of our trip to the Halfmoon Caye Natural Monument. That's where the MarAlliance has been studying the sharks that call Belize's barrier reef home.
Tonight, we have full coverage of their tagging techniques and research on the shark population along the entire Meso-American Reef System. Daniel Ortiz has that story:
Those man-made pressures that continue to threaten sharks include overfishing, which has not stopped, the clearing of mangroves and seagrass that comes with development, and water pollution. Dr. Graham says that they have encountered sharks in the wild with material infections linked to pollution.
the MarAlliance has tagged over 1,000 sharks over the last 15 years. Some of those tagged sharks have been recaptured in neighboring countries, and each time, the subject had grown since their last sighting.
The Belize Fisheries Department is also another important ally for the MarAlliance.
