Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; D. James Baker, former Director, NOAA; Jesse Ausubel, CoML Programme Director, Sloan Foundation; Shubha Sathyendranath of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and fellow POGO experts are available for advance interviews.

A team of Canadian and American scientists says that the overfishing of large sharks has led to an explosion of small predators that are devastating populations of shellfish. Sharks usually do not evoke sympathy, but a new study could change that.