• July, 2010 - Maldives, an atoll nation in the Indian Ocean spread over 90,000 square kilometers, will became the second country to announce blanket protection for its sharks. Maldives was an aggressive contributor to the process of finning.

• Spain, which has one of the world’s largest commercial fishing fleets, recently outlawed the fishing of thresher and hammerhead sharks.

• September, 2009 - The President of the Pacific Island of Palau went in front of the UN to announce the world’s first shark sanctuary, banning all commercial shark fishing in its 230,000 square miles of water, an area about the size of France.

• The U.S. Shark Conservation Act of 2009 passed the House of Representatives by unanimous consent in March but still awaits action in the Senate.