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Protecting sharks from unsustainable trade: All eyes on CITES

Shark Advocates International, like conservationists from around the world, is now keenly focused on the March 3-15 Conference of Parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand. There, Parties will vote on a record number of proposals for controlling trade in a variety of threatened sharks and rays, including hammerheads and mantas. Click here to see our new fact sheets on these species. Read more...

Landslide Vote in European Parliament Puts Stronger EU Finning Ban in Reach

Shark Advocates International (SAI) is joining the chorus of conservation groups worldwide heralding the recent European Parliament vote to close loopholes in the European Union (EU) ban on shark finning (the wasteful process of slicing off a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea). The vote represented the culmination of six years of intense campaigning and debate.

On November 22, Members of the European Parliament voted 566-47 in favor of a proposal from the European Commission to prohibit removal of shark fins on board fishing vessels (and thereby require that all sharks landed still have their fins naturally attached). Read more...

• News Releases
• Fact Sheets

• Sharks & CITES, the morning after
• Sawfish and Mantas Follow Sharks on CITES Agenda
• Shark Proposals Adopted at CITES Committee Meeting
• Debate Over Global Shark and Ray Trade Heats Up

• January 8: Atlantic HMS Advisory Panel Meeting
• March 3-14: Sixteenth meeting of CITES
• May 7-9: Managing Our Nation's Fisheries 3.