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Save Our Seas Foundation

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A new publication cautions that marine protected areas in the Eastern Tropical Pacific region may currently provide limited protection for silky sharks, and that these sharks are at risk from overfishing where they roam outside them and on the high seas.

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Map by Kelsey Dickson | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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