Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader, posing with the bronze whaler, which was tagged and releasedNigel Farage has been criticised for posting a photo of himself with a hooked shark for the second time in six months. The former UKIP leader described the shark’s struggle to escape from the hook before it was dragged up a beach where he posed for a photograph holding its tail. The bronze whaler shark, also known as a copper shark, is classed as “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as the long period it takes to mature and its low reproductive rate makes it highly vulnerable to overfishing. In a Twitter post on New Year’s Eve, Mr Farage wrote: “What a fight to land this bronze whaler shark (it was tagged for research purposes and put back into the…

Source: The Times January 01, 2019 23:59 UTC