Across the vast and largely unwatched expanse of the North Pacific, a quiet contest between exploitation and accountability has been unfolding for years. This summer, Canada's fourth consecutive multinational enforcement patrol documented fifty-two violations aboard thirty boarded vessels — sharks finned alive, dolphins harpooned for bait, catches rendered unidentifiable — committed by industrial fleets flagged to five nations. The operation is less a solution than a signal: that the open ocean, long treated as a space beyond consequence, is beginning to acquire witnesses. Whether witness beco
Canada's Pacific patrols catch illegal shark finning, dolphin slaughter on high seas
Dolphins are harpooned and butchered for shark bait; sharks are finned alive and discarded; fishing crews face poor living and working conditions.