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Good news for sharks
• 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.
• CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, has given protection to three species of sharks: great whites, whale sharks and basking sharks, and will consider six more, including the spiny dogfish, at its meeting next year.
• 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.