More Limits on Fisheries

The Hague, Netherlands international body overseeing wildlife trade may throw a lifeline to the shark popular in fish and chips and the aromatic cedar tree used for fine furniture and humidors, as it considers new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber. A meeting of the 171 nation convention on International Trade in Endangered Species will tackle commercial issues as never before. They hope to intervene before species' survival reaches a serious level of risk. CITES has until now, stepped in at a far too late stage when the species were already or almost commercially extinct. There is also an ongoing struggle to control elephant poaching and to protect tigers from extinction.