Last Updated: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 17:14
Asian nations on Tuesday blocked US-backed proposals to protect the heavily fished hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks on concerns that regulating the booming trade in fins could hurt poor coastal nations.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 00:37
Four rapidly dwindling shark species prized in Asia for fins and in Europe for meat will be swimming against the current at a UN wildlife trade meet days after an attempt to protect tuna was crushed.
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