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Article: Out of the blue; Trade in endangered species.(Regulating trade in endangered species)(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2002
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Charismatic, isn't it?
This year's CITES meeting to regulate trade in endangered species will focus on fish--and see a clash between different flavours of conservationist
IT CAN grow two metres long. It is found deep in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. And it can live for 50 years. The Patagonian toothfish (or Chilean sea bass) is big and it certainly isn't pretty. But, according to some, it is endangered and restrictions are needed on its trade.
Meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) are traditionally associated with arguments about what is known, somewhat cynically, as ...