Brussels, 19/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - Up to 24 countries could be catching sharks in the Atlantic and Mediterranean without declaring some or all of their catch to ICCAT (International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas). This is what the organisation Oceana has stated in a report published on Tuesday 19 November, which included an analysis of Hong Kong's data on the trade in shark fins.
This report, published as ICCAT is meeting in South Africa, identifies two categories of...