Paying fishers to save sharks killed more sharks Gabriel Englander September 16, 2026 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/paying-fishers-to-save-sharks-killed-more-sharks Sometimes when a surprising paper comes out, I don’t immediately read it to understand why its counterintuitive result occurs. So I keep it on the burner in the back of my mind. And when I do get to it, my satisfaction is all the greater for my curiosity having simmered for so long. That’s how it went with the first-ever marine conservation RCT, published by Hollie Booth et al. in 2025.