On April 17, President Trump issued an executive order would open large USA marine protected areas to commercial fishing in the Pacific. The order instructs the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to implement US-based fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. The proclamation threatens endangered species, sharks, and some of the healthiest coral reefs and marine ecosystems in the world.Protected under federal law since 2009, the proclamation violates the Antiquities Act, the law used to create the Monument.
Read MoreNOAA Designates New Sanctuary in Hawai’i- Newsletter
Approved in the final days of the Biden Administration, NOAA is currently designating the marine portions of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Hawaiian Islands as America’s 18th National Marine Sanctuary.
Read MoreFinal Public Comment Ends to Support the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary
One third of all sharks including the Oceanic Whitetip and Scalloped Hammerhead are imminently threatened with extinction. Join us at a film screening, volunteer, and help us save sharks from overfishing, and protect their habitat.
Learn more, and sign our petition to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission to reduce shark bycatch below.
Saving Endangered Sharks Through Science, Art, and Community Action
overfished by fisheries around the world, primarily for the fins. Once abundant, oceanic whitetip (OWT) sharks have been depleted on a global scale. International demand for shark fins is the major force behind OWT shark mortality. The fins are exported from around the globe to Asia, particularly China, for use in shark fin soup.
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November News Ecotourism in La Paz, and at nearby Cabo Pulmo are examples of how dive-ecotourism can support conservation and marine protection. Our goal is to extend this up into the Gulf, connecting protected places with a no fishing migratory pathway. Follow us on this exciting partnership and endeavor to save endangered sharks at of the world’s great shark Hope Spots!
Read MoreInternational Whale Shark Day-respecting the ocean’s largest living fish.
According to the IUCN, the Indo-Pacific population of the whale shark is thought to have reduced 63 percent over the past 75 years. These magnificent sharks are now endangered globally. Join us for a live webinar tonight and learn how to observe, document and save sharks.
Read MoreMay Newsletter- EU Shark Fin Trade Ban, Shark Films & Events
View this email in your browser Stopping the Global Shark Fin Trade Following shark fin trade bans in Canada, the USA, (and soon the UK), the major source of shark fin […]
Read MoreThe Year of the Shark: December News
With your help, Shark Stewards has catalyzed considerable conservation success for sharks in the Congress with the US Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act, regulating gear in Pacific fisheries, and passing global trade restrictions this year!
This month, the Congress made the penultimate step towards saving overfished shark populations and endangered sharks from extinction, by passing a bill that will ban the USA’s involvement in the global shark fin trade.
Read MoreSaving Endangered Sharks – World Ocean Day News
Celebrate the Ocean With Sharks!Join us celebrating sharks and the oceans on World Oceans Day, and help work together to protect biodiversity!
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We are grateful that in 2021 we saw the reintroduction of the California Driftnet Ban and the US Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act: two acts of legislation that Shark Stewards have been involved with since 2013. We are actively supporting the establishment of two new cultural and national marine sanctuaries with NOAA.
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