Tag: mako sharks

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 02:41 UTC

  Global meeting to regulate trade in 18 types of shark and ray; 30 countries back proposals

  

  Dozens of countries will push at a global meeting for regulations on trade in 18 types of shark and ray, with conservationists warning of looming extinction for many species. “Sharks and rays are pretty much unmanaged still in fisheries around the world and are disappearing before our eyes,” Luke Warwick of the Wildlife Conservation Society told reporters in Geneva.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  
Spanish and Portuguese vessels overfishing sharks in the North Atlantic, claims Greenpeace

  

  Thousands of endangered sharks are killed each year in the North Atlantic due to a lack of protection against overfishing in international waters, Greenpeace said on Thursday .