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7 June 2012
World Oceans Day
World Oceans Day
Friday 8 June 2012, A celebration of the world's oceanic wildlife featuring the work of many of our photographers including Reinhard Dirscherl, Phillip Colla, Luc Hosten, Steve Kazlowski, and photographers from VWPics.
Friday 8 June 2012, A celebration of the world's oceanic wildlife featuring the work of many of our photographers including Reinhard Dirscherl, Phillip Colla, Luc Hosten, Steve Kazlowski, and photographers from VWPics.
25 March 2010
Sharks fail to get CITES protection
The current round of talks between Parties to the Convention for the International Trade in Endangered Species, better known as CITES, has failed to produce any protection for 4 shark species - the porbeagle, spiny dogfish, scalloped hammerhead and oceanic whitetip. All the proposals put forward by the EU and the USA to protect these at risk species were voted out.
Sadly, this lack of protection means that these sharks, along with many other species of shark will continue to be overfished for their meat and fins. Unbelievably, the numbers of the once common spiny dogfish have fallen by a massive 90 per cent or more. Heavily overfished for its meat (sold as rock salmon), this fish is now critically endangered. It is the slowest growing of the sharks and has the longest gestation period, factors which mean that its numbers take a long time to recover. The rising demand for shark fins is threatening the hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks.
Ecoscene has an excellent selection of shark images such as the image of the spiny dogfish above. Check out our website www.ecoscene.com
Sadly, this lack of protection means that these sharks, along with many other species of shark will continue to be overfished for their meat and fins. Unbelievably, the numbers of the once common spiny dogfish have fallen by a massive 90 per cent or more. Heavily overfished for its meat (sold as rock salmon), this fish is now critically endangered. It is the slowest growing of the sharks and has the longest gestation period, factors which mean that its numbers take a long time to recover. The rising demand for shark fins is threatening the hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks.
Ecoscene has an excellent selection of shark images such as the image of the spiny dogfish above. Check out our website www.ecoscene.com
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