'We sell it in secret, like drugs': Brazil's appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

One of the biggest consumers in a global market worth an estimated ?2bn, trade in the cheap fish in the south American country is booming. But worried conservationists say most people do not realise they are eating sharkPhotographs by Avener PradoThe bright blue skies and calm waters of the estuary belie rough conditions at sea, and there is no sign of activity among the colourful fishing boats moored around the harbour of Cananéia, a sleepy fishing town 160 miles south of S?o Paulo.On the wharf, however, a delivery of frozen fish from Uruguay has just arrived and a few men in white gumboots are busy unloading pallets of beheaded specimens labelled Galeorhinus galeus - school shark. Continue reading...