Richard Peirce

Richard Peirce "lives in North Cornwall, England, and travels to the Middle East, India, South Africa, Australasia, and the Americas as well as all over Europe and the UK on shark conservation issues. Richard is Chairman of the Shark Trust, the Shark Conservation Society, and sponsors the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain tag and release programme and other projects.

"In 2005 Richard and Jacqui Peirce started Shark Cornwall specifically to provide a vehicle for bringing the existence of sharks in British waters to the attention of the general public. In 2006 they launched the first cage diving in northern Europe working off Cornwall with Blue sharks as the target species. Having successfully launched this "new to Britain" form of shark eco-tourism Shark Cornwall is now working with Cornish skippers to take it forward."