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Finally, Some International Protection for Endangered Seahorses
- "Starting May 15 [2004], seahorses became one of the first commercially valuable marine species to be managed by the world's largest wildlife treaty, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). A number of the world's species of seahorses are threatened because of overfishing and unsustainable trade, which has led to all 33 seahorse species being added to the wildlife covered by CITES." - excerpt from the Pew Institute for Ocean Science in their newsletter SeaSpan May 2004-B, volume 10, number 9.
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