ICCAT progress for shark and ray conservation

Shark League/ICCAT

Source: Martijn Schouten/Shark League

Atlantic manta ray and blue shark conservation advances under UK leadership, says conservation group

Shark League member groups have welcomed conservation advances for Atlantic sharks and rays at this year’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), but also warned that new measures are still insufficiently cautious to properly safeguard such inherently vulnerable species. 

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