British waters contain 33 different species of shark, of which Blue and Mako are considered dangerous to man.
Mr Peirce told BBC News: “I am primarily a shark conservationist. Part of our job is to get some sense of sharks to the public and politicians.
“We are killing them at a huge rate, there is virtually no real threat from sharks to humans, the threat is entirely the other way round.
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