feed to stay on top of the news. They can be found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia. However, due to the continued interest in shark fins and oil in the Chinese marketplace, fishers in southwestern Madagascar are posing a threat to the coelacanths’ lives as they set gill-nets in deeper waters called jarifa gill-nets. The Western Indian Ocean species, Latimeria chalumnae, has been classified as critically endangered by the IUCN, while a similar Indonesian counterpart (L. menadoensis) is classified as vulnerable. “When we looked into this further, we were astounded [by the numbers caught]… even though there has been no proactive process in Madagascar to monitor or conserve coelacanths,” said Andrew Cooke, a lead author in the new study in the SA Journal of Science that reviews the data for specimens, according to Mongabay.