<story><title>400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&amp;gt; The team looked at 28 sharks, most of which had died after being caught in fishing nets as by-catch.&lt;p&gt;Nice job- the shark had done just fine for ~400 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aloer</author><text>Related: there’s a new documentary on Netflix called Seaspiracy&lt;p&gt;It has some staggering numbers regarding the amount of by-catch caught every day</text></comment>
<story><title>400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&amp;gt; The team looked at 28 sharks, most of which had died after being caught in fishing nets as by-catch.&lt;p&gt;Nice job- the shark had done just fine for ~400 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ironmagma</author><text>The relative scale of the effects of the fishing industry as a whole vs. the few scientific studies that are done is staggeringly high.</text></comment>