Friday 11/26, 6:15 PM: Except for conservation measures approved earlier this week that prohibited possession, retention and sale of oceanic white tip sharks, ICCAT has failed to follow though on approving measures to ban finning by requiring sharks be landed with fins attached, create protections for all thresher sharks, porbeagle sharks, hammerheads and shortfin mako sharks ----oh --- wait --- they did approve a measure for makos >>>>> it asks that member nations try not to increase their catches and report catch data in a more timely fashion. Oh yah ----
Opposition to shark measures centered around Japan and Canada. Mexico, Brazil, the EU and the US supported the rejected attempts at providing substantive conservation protections for these long-lived and slow reproducing species. And yes - still no action on the star of the party: bluefin tuna.
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