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There is international agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread on the protection of 18 threatened agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread of sharks and rays. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) agreed on Sunday to give agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread protection for the agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread creatures from actions such as agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread fishing and hunting. Many of the threatened species are hunted for their meat and agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread. Some of the species being protected are the world's agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread shark (the mako shark), wedgefishes and guitarfishes. Luke Warwick of the Wildlife Conservation Society said: "Sharks are agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread wildlife....Momentum is agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread building to ensure that these species, which have been around for 400 million years, continue to be around for agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread generations."

CITES is an international agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread established in 1973 to protect endangered animals and agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread. It has been signed by 182 different agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread, plus the European Union. There was not agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread agreement at the weekend's meeting. The focus of the meeting was on protecting sharks. The agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread of sharks killed each year by agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread fishing is estimated at 100 million. One conservation group said this agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread could be as high as 273 million. Forty countries disagreed that the mako shark was in agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread. They argued that there was not enough agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread to show that the mako was disappearing as a result of fishing. The global shark fin agreementclearlycommercialdangerevidencefastestfigurefinsfuturegreatermarinemarketnumberplantsspeciesstatestreatyvulnerablewidespread is estimated to be over $1.2 billion.