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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10263

25 November 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
NGO says 1.3 million sharks killed in Atlantic

Brussels, 24/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - More than 1.3 million sharks, many belonging to species that are listed as being threatened with extinction, were killed by industrial fishing vessels in the Atlantic Ocean in 2008, claims NGO Oceana in a report published on Monday 22 November on the sidelines of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) meeting. Oceana estimates that the real number of sharks caught could be far higher given the poor quality of...

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