Legal problems after 30 hammerhead sharks die at French aquarium

France’s largest aquarium is facing legal action over the deaths of 30 hammerhead sharks.

The NGO Sea Shepherd filed a lawsuit against Nausicaa National Sea Center, situated in Boulogne-sur-Mer near Calais, for “serious abuse and non-compliance with regulations concerning the care of wild animals in captivity”.

Nausicaa caught its first sharks from the wild in Australia in 2011, all of which died over an eight-year period, with the final one passing away last Thursday.

An endangered species, the aquarium said the hammerheads died from a fungus, but Sea Shepherd claims some of them ate each other.

The aquarium invested €3 million in the project, largely from public funds, according to Sea Shepherd.

Via Euronews

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