Time-lapse cameras help save Sharks and Rays [4K]
Alex returns to Sandakan to meet MRF scientist, KC, who has become a bit of a technology wiz through the innovative use of remote time-lapse cameras to monitor fishing trawlers and the their catch. By-catch from trawlers is a big environmental issue and whilst walking round the local fish market Alex and KC discover baby sharks and stingrays for sale. Alex learns of the importance of sharks to a healthy marine ecosystem and how KC’s research can improve the sustainability of the fishermen at the same time as saving sharks and rays in the future.
Alex and KC discussing the camera data from the fishing boats 
Young sharks in a fish market in Sabah 
A bamboo shark, caught as by catch 
Many juvenile sharks in the fish market 
Sharks and rays for sale 
Installing cameras on a fishing boat 
Sorting through the catch 
Plastic pollution brought in with the catch 
Sorting out the shrimp, the target species for the fishermen 
Juvenile shark head in market 
Fishing boats in Sandakan
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