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Latest News
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Shark Alliance Delivers European Citizens' Plea to Spain
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27 Jan 2010
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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 .....
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Baby Basking Shark in Spanish Fish Market Despite Protection
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16 Dec 2009
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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, .....
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EU Ends Fisheries for Endangered Sharks
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15 Dec 2009
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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.
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Latest Publications
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Statement of concern: Conservation of oceanic sharks
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01 Jul 2009
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Statement to joint meeting of international tuna fishery managers from five Regional Fishery
Management Organizations (RFMOs), San Sebastian, Spain
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The Conservation Status of Pelagic Sharks and Rays Full Report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop
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24 Jun 2009
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| Key Publications
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Shark Alert Report
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17 Feb 2009
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Safeguarding sharks (pdf)
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11 Jan 2007
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| Shark Fact |
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| Sawfish (shark-like rays with long, tooth-studded snouts) have long been revered in tribal cultures in several parts of the world, but today all sawfish species are in serious danger of extinction, with the European population already wiped out. |
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