|
Latest News
|
|
|
Shark Alliance Delivers European Citizens' Plea to Spain
|
27 Jan 2010
|
|
|
|
 |
Madrid: Representatives from the Shark Alliance, an international shark conservation coalition, today delivered to Spanish authorities a petition signed by over 90,000 citizens from 16 European countries urging Spain to end its opposition to improving the EU ban on finning - cutting .....
Read More | French | Italian | Spanish
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baby Basking Shark in Spanish Fish Market Despite Protection
|
16 Dec 2009
|
|
|
|
|
The Shark Alliance is condemning the continued illegal take of basking sharks in Spain, evidenced this week by the display of a juvenile of the species at a supermarket fish counter in Santander. The harmless, plankton-feeding basking shark, the world's second largest fish, .....
Read More
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
EU Ends Fisheries for Endangered Sharks
|
15 Dec 2009
|
|
|
|
|
The Shark Alliance applauds the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers' decision to end all fishing for porbeagle sharks and reduce by 90% fishing quotas for spurdog, in line with scientific advice and proposals from the European Commission.
Read More
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Latest Publications
|
|
|
Statement of concern: Conservation of oceanic sharks
|
01 Jul 2009
|
|
|
|
|
Statement to joint meeting of international tuna fishery managers from five Regional Fishery
Management Organizations (RFMOs), San Sebastian, Spain
Download document (146.066 kb)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Conservation Status of Pelagic Sharks and Rays Full Report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop
|
24 Jun 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| Key Publications
|
|
|
Shark Alert Report
|
17 Feb 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Safeguarding sharks (pdf)
|
11 Jan 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
