The Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre (CBMWC) positioned an underwater digital camera within the bay and captured an unbelievable sight—a really uncommon angel shark. Angel sharks (Squatina squatina) are listed as “critically endangered” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN says that traditionally, these sharks’ vary prolonged from Scandinavia to northwestern Africa, however in the present day, the animals have vanished from a lot of this vary. Marine conservationists name the sighting “a rare and exciting encounter.”
“Our underwater cameras in Cardigan Bay give an unbelievable perception into our seabeds in West Wales,” wrote CBMWC in a Fb submit sharing the footage. “They not too long ago captured an Angelshark—one among world’s rarest and most threatened shark species!”
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Angel shark populations have declined because of habitat degradation and damaging fishing practices. These backside dwellers are significantly prone to trawl-net fishing, which not solely wrecks the seabed but in addition additionally entangles the sharks unintentionally. The animals even have a low replica price. The mix of those two realities puts them at risk of extinction.
See the uncommon shark on an underwater digital camera right here:
Header inventory picture of an angel shark by our great world/Getty Pictures