Legal capture of endangered manta ray sparks bipartisan outrage in Florida
Florida The authorities agreed to review the giving special permissions that allow companies to be captured. Endangered Creatures To sell, after a screaming for a large manta beam network for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi.
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Review comes after a viral video He showed that a boat team, which was released on July 12th, attracted the boats from the Panama City Beach in Florida to a giant manta Ray and giving anger among the community. A dolphin tour operator who witnessed the stage and filmed confronted with the crew and asked Manta Ray or asked that they had not released Ray, but they announced that it had legal permission.
Denis Richard, the founder of Water Planet US dolphin tour company that took the video, said in a telephone conversation on Saturday, “Manta was connected to the rail wing and it was clearly finished.” “I began to tell them that they should be ashamed of them.”
Later, it was confirmed that the crew were contractors working for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi to supply an aquarium there, and the company that held permission was Florida, Marathon -based Dynasty Marine Associates. Permit was given by Florida Fish and Wildlife Protection Commission (FWC).
Plankton feeding giant Manta Ray Federal listed as a extinct speciesWith commercial fishing as the largest US threat. Species are both directly targeted and captured as Bycatch. Manta rays are valued especially in special commercial circles for gill plates sold to international area.
After the video becomes viral, a group of two -party Florida deputies letter Florida’s wildlife agency calls to cancel the permission that allows Manda Ray to be caught. The letter also requested that any future “Naval Special Activity License örnekli, which allowed the limited capture of endangered species. Previously reported By various Florida media organizations.
Republican Representative Brian Mast, independent State Senator Jason Pizzo and Representatives of the State House Lindsay Cross, Democrat and Peggy Gossett-Seidman and Meg Weinberger, signed by Representatives of the State House, “This application is basic concerns about the role of FWC in supporting the role of protection and protection of wildlife,” he said.
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Dynasty Marine Associates did not respond immediately to the request for comments.
FWC President Rodney Barreto responded to the letter of MPs on Friday and confirmed that the agency would ör reorganizing ın that the agency would önünde re -visit ”that allow companies to capture federal -protected marine species for aquariums. He said the rule hearing would take place in 2026. He also said that since August 19, the agency has stopped giving permissions that allow the capture of sharks and manta rays listed within the endangered species law.
“We understand both your concerns and what is grown by the public after the last harvest of a giant Manta Ray, B said Barreto. “We visit our policies on publication again. [marine special activity licenses] It contains prohibited sea species. “
The movement represents progress for marine wildlife advocates such as Richard.
“Manta Ray, the protected species list and has a reason,” he said. “Species come out, many Other speciesThat’s why they need to be protected. If they are not, we will see what happens in many types that will decrease and are no longer on this planet. “
