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March 22, 2010

Sights on CITES: Hope for Sharks

BY: Emily Fisher

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This is the seventh in a series of posts from CITES. Check out the rest of the dispatches from Doha here.

While CITES has disappointed so far on bluefin tuna and corals, there’s hope yet for sharks. 

Eight shark species have been proposed for listing to Appendix II of CITES, including the oceanic whitetip, scalloped hammerhead, dusky, sandbar, smooth hammerhead, great hammerhead, porbeagle and spiny dogfish.

Listing these species, which are threatened by shark finning, is necessary to ensure international trade does not drive these shark species to extinction.

Here’s Oceana’s Ann Schroeer from our Brussels office with an optimistic outlook on the upcoming shark proposals at CITES.

 

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