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Sharks and rays are in free fall: More than one-third are threatened with extinction from overfishing
VanderWright, W. et al., The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
As lead assessors of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group, we reassessed the extinction risk of all species of sharks and rays. This eight-year project took hundreds of experts from all over the world to compile the data we needed to shed light on the status of sharks and rays. Unfortunately, the data told us that we may be seeing the beginning of the end of their 420-million-year reign over the oceans.
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