{"id":270599,"date":"2017-02-06T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8df3f57b78b2aaf6137719b1b208debd"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:00:01","slug":"can-sharks-be-fished-sustainably-yes-but-its-going-to-take-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=270599","title":{"rendered":"Can sharks be fished sustainably? Yes (but it&#8217;s going to take work)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom holds that sharks can&#8217;t be harvested in a sustainable manner because they are long-lived animals. It takes time for them to reproduce and grow in numbers. But, researchers reporting in Current Biology on February 6 have evidence to suggest that sustainable shark fishing can be done with careful, science-based management. In fact, they say, an outright shark ban won&#8217;t work. The only way to protect sharks and the food security of people who depend on them is by managing shark fisheries sustainably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom holds that sharks can&#8217;t be harvested in a sustainable manner because they are long-lived animals. It takes time for them to reproduce and grow in numbers. But, researchers reporting in Current Biology on February 6 have evidence to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270600,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270599\/revisions\/270600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}