Join Shark Stewards for our annual live shark event online!
Wednesday, December 21⋅6:30 – 8:00pm
House Votes to Pass Shark Fin Trade Ban
A bill to end the USA shark fin trade reintroduced by Representatives Sablan and McCaul passed through the Congress with a strong bipartisan majority Thursday.
House lawmakers passed the measure that would ban buying and selling shark fins in the United States and help the country fight illegal fishing and overfishing sharks. As part of the huge National Defense Authorization Act HR 776, the “END Wildlife Trafficking Act” includes the shark fin sale provision.
Read MoreBan Wire Leaders to Save Endangered Pacific Sharks
The 16th meeting of the WCPFC is taking place on 5-11 December in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and we are urging member states in attendance to fight for sharks and rays that are harvested in the Pacific.
Banning wire leaders and shark lines would reduce fishing mortality of oceanic whitetips by 40.5%, and that of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis), another threatened species, by 30.8%, according to research cited in the WCPFC proposal.
Read MoreVictory for Sharks – 90 Species Protected
Sharks and Rays Receive Appendix II Listing at CITES-CoP19
We just made history protecting sharks at CoP19 in Panama by bringing Requiem sharks (including blue sharks), all hammerhead sharks, freshwater rays, and small guitarfish under protection from the international shark meat and fin trade.
Over 90 Species of Sharks Protected at CITES
Yesterday history was made protecting sharks at the the 19th Coalition of the Parties at Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Panama where 184 governments and conservationist Parties convened to consider applying major trade protections for plants and animals in the wildlife trade.
Read MoreTrip Report: Devil’s Teeth and Ducking Whales
Humpback whales steam among the fish, spouts blowing in the wind as they forage in the waves. We find the whales often feeding in or close to the shipping lane. Each year as many as 200,000 ships enter and exit the Golden Gate, and according to the Point Blue Conservation Science as many as 83 humpback, blue and fin whales are killed by ships on the West Coast each year.
Read MoreSharks: The Elders of the Ocean
Sharks: The Elders of the OceanChristina Briegleb Dinosaurs have long fascinated scientists, eager children, and curious adults alike. As relicts of the past, they have captivated our imagination and we […]
Read MoreStop Overfishing Endangered Sharks in the Global Shark Fin Trade
Join our Friends at Only One Expressing your Support to List 3 Families of sharks and Rays
An upcoming vote at the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) at CoP19 November among over 180 nations could protect endangered sharks from the shark fin trade Please you add your name to this letter urging world leaders to end the shark fin trade driving the decline of many species of sharks.
Shark Watch, Update from Abroad at Patagonia Palo Alto
Join us for a night of film and conversation on international shark protection with David McGuire, Founder and Executive Director of Shark Stewards.
We will show two short PSAs and a short film, and David will give an update on shark conservation work in Panama and Hawaii including Shark Watch, a community science project funded, in part, by Patagonia.
Read MoreSeeing Sharks at OCUPS
Deron Verbeck and David McGuire will be sharing sone of their photography and conservation work with Shark Stewards at the Orange County Underwater Photographic Society meeting October 11 at 7 […]
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