At the Seventeenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), several additional commercially harvested shark and ray species were listed in Appendix II of CITES. The newly listed shark species include: devil rays, thresher sharks, and silky sharks. Shark species already listed in Appendix II include the basking shark, whale shark, great white shark, oceanic whitetip shark, three species of hammerhead sharks (scalloped, great, and smooth), porbeagle shark, and manta rays…
