{"id":46,"date":"2018-01-10T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:55:16","slug":"sharks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight shark species were selected as priority species: <em>Carcharhinus longimanus, Carcharodon carcharias, Cetorhinus maximus, Lamna nasus, Rhincodon typus, Sphyrna lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The threat of overexploitation for international trade is the principal reason each of these species has been listed in Appendix II of CITES. All priority species are listed as either Vulnerable or Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carcharodon carcharias<\/em>, <em>C. maximus<\/em>, <em>L. nasus <\/em>and <em>S. zygaena <\/em>occur in Canadian waters. However, <em>C. carcharias <\/em>occurs only sporadically, and <em>S. zygaena <\/em>is rare. Live specimens of <em>C. carcharias <\/em>are periodically observed in Atlantic Canada, but all records of <em>C. carcharias <\/em>on the Pacific coast of Canada pertain to beached specimens found on the shores of Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands).<em>\u00a0<\/em>Excepting <em>L. nasus, <\/em>each of the priority shark species occurs in Mexican waters, although <em>C. maximus <\/em>is exceedingly rarely found. All of the priority shark species are found in US waters. Only three species (<em>C. carcharias<\/em>, <em>C. maximus <\/em>and <em>S. zygaena<\/em>) have ever been found in the waters of all three countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight shark species were selected as priority species: Carcharhinus longimanus, Carcharodon carcharias, Cetorhinus maximus, Lamna nasus, Rhincodon typus, Sphyrna lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena. The threat of overexploitation for international trade is the principal reason each of these species has been listed in Appendix II of CITES. All priority species are listed as either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-species.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}