WWF buys $100k shark fishing licence to scrap it
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia has bought a $100,000 shark fishing license on the Great Barrier Reef, and will retire it to save sharks from being caught. WWF said the license, which would've given its owner the right to drag a 1.2 km net anywhere along the Reef's length, was earlier used to catch about 10,000 sharks each year.