The Aquarium Trade is Trying to Obtain Commercial Permits to Extract Wildlife from Hawai’i Reefs!
Read MoreShark News, June 2021
This June 19th, we invite communities to come together, take care of each other and our oceans. Join us in a celebration, reducing ocean plastic and protecting the juvenile white shark and ray population from pollution and fishing with Shark Watch at Ray Bay, Seal Beach CA.
Read MoreShark Fin Sales Elimination Act Reintroduced into Senate
The bill when passed into law will make it illegal to possess, buy, sell, or transport shark fins or any product containing shark fins,
Read MoreHawaiʻi Enacts Landmark Shark Protection Act on World Oceans Day
On World Ocean’s Day Governor David Ige signed into law, House Bill 553; Relating to Shark Protection, protecting more than 40 species of sharks that frequent state waters in Hawaiʻi.
Read MoreNets of Death: End a Fishery That Will Save Sharks
Please support saving California marine wildlife by contacting your Congressional representative and ask them to support the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act.
Read MoreSaving Endangered Marine Megafauna From Extinction
A conversation on sharks, mantas, whales and the Endangered Species Act. Watch the entire program Facebook Live discussion at 4PM PDT, Q/A with experts on manta rays, whales, sharks, sea […]
Read MoreWhere Have All the Blue Sharks Gone?
While Blue Sharks are some of the most extraordinary, personable swimmers of the ocean as well as one of the most abundant pelagic shark species in the world, little is still known about the biology or population health of this beautiful shark. This is primarily due to a disregard by fisheries management and general indifference to the high amount of bycatch and the emergent threat of shark finning.
Read MoreWorld Oceans Day With Shark Stewards
Join us for a series of online and in-person events celebrating the ocean, taking action to reduce plastic pollution, and saving sharks and whales in our National Marine Sanctuaries and beyond.
Read MoreNew Law Proposed to Protect Hawaiian Sharks
Shark Stewards is working in Hawai’i to support House Bill 553, which passed the House and Senate unanimously. The bill will provide necessary protections for Hawai’ian mano (shark).
Read MoreSaving Endangered Oceanic Whitetip Sharks from Extinction
Oceanic whitetip sharks were once the most common pelagic shark throughout the world, but their numbers have suffered a sharp declined due to overfishing in a mere 30 years. This […]
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