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Coalition poised to react to release of European Commission Shark Conservation Plan.
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Yesterday, Representative Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam), Chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans in the 110th Congress, introduced the Shark Conservation Act of 2009, H.R 81. Image Scubazoo.com.
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The EU Council of Fisheries Ministers today failed to set zero catch limits for economically valuable porbeagle and spurdog sharks, as proposed by the European Commission and scientists.
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Late word that EU Fisheries Ministers agreed today to fully protect four highly endangered shark and ray species helped to ease conservationists' dismay over the adoption of excessive 2009 quotas for severely overfished spurdog and porbeagle sharks.
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In the run-up to the infamous December meeting of the European Council of Ministers, the Shark Alliance is calling on Fisheries Ministers to adopt proposals from the European Commission to protect endangered sharks and rays.
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Not usually famed for their angelic behaviour, sharks are under the spotlight at this week's EU Fisheries Council meeting. Among the sharks in dire need of protection is the Angel Shark ; an extraordinary and distinctive fish formerly common off our shores. They are now extremely rare, even extinct in some areas.
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The Shark Alliance is heralding today's ground-breaking agreement by more than 80 governments to list mako, spiny dogfish and porbeagle sharks under the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).
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The Shark Alliance is denouncing the failure of international fishery managers to adopt meaningful limits on the catch of threatened Atlantic sharks at their annual meeting which ended today.
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Lisbon was the venue of the 12th annual meeting of the European Elasmobranch Association (EEA), a founding member of the Shark Alliance.
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On the eve of the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the Shark Alliance is urging member countries to agree fishing limits for the Atlantic's most vulnerable shark species, targeted and taken incidentally in international tuna and swordfish fisheries. Image Jeremy Stafford Deitsch.
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