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Rick Stafford

Mako sharks killed at the South Jersey Shark Tournament in June 2017. (Lewis Pugh/Independent Media Institute)

Shark fishing tournaments devalue ocean wildlife and harm marine conservation efforts

Rick Stafford
In this Aug. 23, 2016 photo provided by OCEARCH, a juvenile male great white shark named Paumanok swims away after researchers tagged and sampled him off the point of Montauk, N.Y. (AP)

Overfishing could be the next problem for climate change

Rick Stafford