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Protecting Sharks and Rays in Pacific Islands waters
In August this year, shark and ray experts from across the Pacific Islands region and New Zealand met to review over 350 potential Areas of Interest across Oceania. These sites are those that are important for life-history processes such as reproduction, aggregation, feeding, or as migratory pathways.
The ISRA workshop hosted in Fiji brought together 26 experts and is the sixth of 13 regional workshops to be held worldwide between 2022–2027. Currently, 410 ISRAs have already been delineated from across the five regions assessed: Central and South American Pacific, Mediterranean and Black Seas, Western Indian Ocean, Asia, and Polar Waters.
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