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Endurance swimmer Louis Pew spotlights shark declines after 12‑day Martha’s Vineyard swim, UNEP says
Summary
Endurance swimmer Louis Pew described a 12‑day Martha’s Vineyard circumnavigation at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, using three headline numbers — 50, 274,000 and about 100 million — to press for a new narrative on sharks. United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Anderson framed the swim within 50 years of regional seas conventions and the 1972 Convention on Migratory Species.
Louis Pew completed a 12‑day swim around Martha’s Vineyard to draw attention to shark conservation, and at a press session at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice he urged a change in how people perceive and protect sharks.
Pew, an endurance swimmer and ocean advocate, told the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) panel he framed the swim with three numbers to explain the scale of the threat: 50 (years since the movie Jaws), 274,000 (the number he said are killed, on average, globally every day) and roughly 100 million (his annual extrapolation). "It is an ecoside," Pew said, summarizing…
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