Legal bid to stop approved gulper shark fishing

2 days ago

A High Court case has been filed seeking to revoke the government’s decision permitting fishing of the endangered gulper shark. The administrative case was filed by environmental activists from Save Maldives Campaign, Humaidha Abdul Ghafoor and Mohamed Sineen. Prior to this, Humaidha had filed a case with the Civil Court seeking an injunction to halt to the reclamation of K. Gulhifalhu, citing