Marine wildlife advocates condemned the recent killing of a blue shark (Prionace glauca), and its pups, and called on the authorities to take action against the perpetrators as the Department of Agriculture (DA-BFAR) Caraga opened its own investigation into the incident. A viral video circulated on social media taken in Barangay Cabayawa, Tubay town, Agusan del Norte, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, showed a group of individuals capturing a shark by hand and dragging the fish towards the rough rocky coast. One man hit the head of the shark several times with a dead branch of a coconut palm. The group surrounding the shark slowly pulled out 30 pups, from the belly of the dying fish, as it was suffocating and dying from the wounds it sustained.

Mascariñas, E. M. (2025, March 24). Advocates outraged by needless killing of a Blue Shark, pup in Agusan Norte. BusinessMirror, pp. A12, A2.