Bycatch, habitat loss threaten widenose guitarfish popn along state’s shoreline | Goa News
Panaji: The critically-endangered widenose guitarfish doesn’t figure in the basket of Goa’s commercially important fish delicacies. Its depleting population, however, faces further threats largely due to an extraneous factor–getting trapped in fishing nets as bycatch.Unlike the sting ray that is highly craved by locals and tourists alike for ambott tik—a table delicacy that embellishes the…