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Posted Fri May 23 2008: from Aquatic Conservation, via EurekAlert:
Over 50 percent of oceanic shark species threatened with extinction http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1211544998
 The experts determined that 16 out of the 21 oceanic shark and ray species that are caught in high seas fisheries are at heightened risk of extinction due primarily to targeted fishing for valuable fins and meat as well as indirect take in other fisheries. In most cases, these catches are unregulated and unsustainable. The increasing demand for the delicacy 'shark fin soup', driven by rapidly growing Asian economies, means that often the valuable shark fins are retained and the carcasses discarded. Frequently, discarded sharks and rays are not even recorded.
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