briefing CITES Appendix II Requiem shark listing

Panama has proposed 19 species of requiem shark for listing in Appendix II at CITES CoP19. All are assessed as Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, as a result of unsustainable fishing mortality driven at least partly by international trade demand for their products. This categorization is based on evidence of population reduction due to fisheries exploitation, habitat deterioration, conservative life history characteristics and international trade demand for their products. Suffering population declines upwards of 70% to local extinctions, each of these species clearly meet the CITES listing criteria, and trade management for these species and their lookalikes is urgently needed.

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