The Costa Rican government angered conservationists Friday when it declined to vote on whether to list two shark species as needing protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
With the start of the new legislative session last week, the government has resumed a battle in the environmental commission over a controversial shrimp trawling bill.
Tech firm ImagineXYZ won the Costa Rica Fishackathon 2016 with the idea for a digital remora that would help better track the use of fuel subsidies for fishing boats.
This weekend, San José and more than 40 others cities worldwide will challenge groups of coders and scientists to find solutions to overfishing in the third Fishackathon.
Won Ah, 30, of Atlanta, Georgia, was reportedly swimming during a sport fishing trip off Costa Rica's Pacific coast when he got caught in the boat's propeller, authorities said.
