As COVID-19 response batters sales, Indonesia’s shark fishery gets a respite

Mongabay
May 4, 2020, 9:43 pm209 pts
JAKARTA — Conservationists see an opportunity to strengthen oversight of the shark trade in Indonesia as fishing activity grinds to a halt amid the COVID-19 outbreak. West Nusa Tenggara province, home to one of the world’s biggest shark and ray markets, saw its trade in the species in the first quarter of…

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