Almost every whale shark in this tourist destination bears scars made to man

The world’s living fish is very fearful by people. The new search shows that a large whale’s whale’s whale proportion in a chocolate popular and protected tourism caused by human activity.

A large group of marine scientists examined more than one whale whale’s lankhale value in the head of seascape bird out of indonesia. Among other things, they found that more about half of the shuts had susgies attributes to humans. Many of these wounds were predictable, researchers say, simple measures can be taken to ensure security of these giant gentleman progresses.

“The elevated) lifting injured shows that even troubled with the protruding shutter, the fishing muttering, the possession of the elasmobrang in the innese, the innese, gymodishment.

A giant in danger

Befitting his nickname, the Whale shark (Typus romodon) is certainly hasfty.

As the adults, common came between 30 and 40 feet (9 and 12 meters) and they usually weigh around 18 hues; Some sound even larger. In spite of their size, even. Are not monster fierce. These slow fish in movements are the fiers that occur surrounding water. Even if they can eat large marine organisms and small, typically fasten to the microscopic planskton.

Whale sharks can be found in warm waters all over the world, but numbers proved to dramatically in recent decades, and are classified as a hazard in danger. Face in many human mines, including hunt, climate change, and bycatching (being fishing fishing in fishing boats). And also with continuous conservation efforts, its recovery has has been slowpartly because it may take up to 30 years for the ribs to reach sexual maturity.

Common but avoidable harm

According to Edy Setyawan, earlier studies looking for their population health were limited to short term polls or snapshots of a single place. In his new search, the team was able to analyze 13 years of view along the The bird’s bird’s head (2010 to 2023) from four regions of the area.

The sea is well known For their diversity and are estimated to contain three-quarters of world coral species with many other migratine species as the whale land. Metra is a popular destination for the sea Tourism and is covered by a network of 26 areas protected marines.

Although researchers have studied past the past data, they are also collected, understood on photos are captured by tourism operators and scientific scientists. All decided, they identified 268 sharks. Almost 200 of these wounded sport visible, they found. And of these, 80% were injured (58.1% had injured from natural causes, member of squile had both).

On the positive side, severe injuries, including the amputation, caused by humans were rare (17.7%). The most common human associated injuries were caused by sharks who cheat on the boats and Bagis-Floating Planfors adorned with network and lights used for fishing.

The squad results were Posted Thursday in borders in the sea science.

Fishing and tourism sea are important parties in the local economy, which standing in the Shar Balfogi. And while the popularity of most texts can lead to the most wounded whites, researchers discuss this should not be inevitable.

They put the simple steps that can cut it a lot in whale shark wounds, as a narrow regarding that you would compel the bowls of his platforms of their platforms. Measures in the tourism, as the traffic boat traffic, speed promotion and promote the responsible in responsible in response, reduce the damage, Setyawan said.

Not all team results are direct. They learned a lot of these majestic heats, including the main regions that reside in the sea. Most misunderstood I was also the Juvenile Males, have the area suggestion is an important one habitual for species.

The plan after following annual trends living in the bales head that lives in the cock via the questions as if these population migrates in altre.