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Shark DNA Forensics and Fin Trade Research
Research Shark DNA Forensics and Fin Trade Research Photo: S. Clarke Photo: D. Perrine/Innerspace Visions The increasing demand for shark products, especially shark fins, has led to enormous fishing pressure ... are conducting a survey of the worlds largest shark fin market in Hong Kong. This survey is aimed at establishing relationships between trade categories for fins and the shark species from ...
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Shark Conservation and Ecology
This decline, coupled with the slow reproductive rate of most sharks has prompted great concern about the health of shark populations and an urgent need for effective conservation and management.
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - Research - Methods
Japan by a commercial long-lining vessel. The very lucrative shark-fin trade has virtually eliminated the bycatch category for blue sharks as all sharks caught by the vast open sea fleets are finned and killed off. The shark-fin trade is a very shady and under the table market with well known but underplayed connections to organized crime that have ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - In the News
Año Nuevo Island, just north of Santa Cruz. Researchers say their work will help determine kinship relations between different types of sharks as well as help monitor the illegal shark-fin trade. The remote location is also home to large elephant seal and sea lion colonies, and teems with tuna and marine ...
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Guy Harvey Research Institute
CNN International: Scientists report virgin shark birth Discovery News: Female Sharks Reproduce Without Dad BBC News: Captive shark had 'virgin birth' Washington Post: Fin Trade Imperils Basking Shark The Economist: DNA Tracking Washington Post: White Marlin Even Less Plentiful ScienceNews: Marlin Crash May Be Worse Than Reported ScienceNOW: Fish Mix-Up Complicates ...
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GHRI Research In The News
Honolulu Advisor: New weapon against illegal shark-fin trade Tiede science magazine (Finland): Hait hupenevat keittolihoiksi Miami Herald: Sharks Under Attack Sun-Sentinel:: ... AM (St. Louis) (.mp3 format, 1.7Mb) NBC 6 Ecowatch broadcast on shark finning Shark fin soup is a popular food in Asia, and scientists fear that sharks have been overfished ...
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Marine Conservation - Coral Sea - preservation of the ocean environment
Great Barrier Reef. Since fluorescent pigments are often invisible in daylight, survey techniques using underwater UV-illumination are being used. Campaign against the shark fin trade in French Polynesia - open letter to the President Conservation push for Osprey Reef gathers momentum again - signatures needed ! click here Galapagos Under Siege - Shark Research ...
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Marine Conservation French Polynesia - against shark finning trade
Marine Conservation French Polynesia - against shark finning trade Appeal Against the shark fin trade in French Polynesia For the creation of the world’s first shark sanctuary Click Here for Word Document A new government elected in French Polynesia and this means new action to prevent shark finning within the Polynesian national waters. ...
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IWMC.org - anti-Shark Fin Soup campaign led by WildAid
From my vantage and experience as former Secretary General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and as head of IWMC- World ... recall that earlier the website said these same Indian fishermen are supposed to object to the fin trade and relish shark flesh. Contrary to WildAid's characterization of hammerhead shark flesh, the ...
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IWMC.org - anti-Shark Fin Soup campaign led by WildAid
Lapointe IWMC President For at least a year if not two, participants at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) predicted one or more "non-use" NGOs ... a 30-day period beginning July 20. Initial activities focused on the largely Singapore-based Shark Fin soup industry, enabling the anti-soup activists to lace their campaign rhetoric aimed at an ill- ...
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