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The Bahamas Announces Ban on Commercial Shark Fishing
Animals  (tags: Sharks, Bahamas, ban, fishing, sale, import, export, fins, Chinese cuisine, global shark conservation, 2011 year of the Shark, endangered, extinction, Atlantic Ocean archipelago )

- 1270 days ago -
(DiverWire) - Sharks in the Bahamas can breathe more easily after the nation's government announced today that all commercial shark fishing in the approximately 630,000 square kilometers (243,244 square miles) of the country's waters is now prohibited.

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