The world's oversight body on wildlife trade refused Friday to defend two sharks from over-exploitation for a range of food, from supermarket fish-and-chips to gourmet shark fin soup.The debate on regulating the export of popular sharks was one of the most contentious in the 12-day meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, and touched the raw nerve of big-profit industries and national interests.
The European Union asked the triennial CITES conference to control the trade of porbeagle and spiny dogfish, two shark species worth millions of dollars a year in international trade.
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