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Article: Fed: CITES to consider crackdown on great white shark trade
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- September 8, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
09-08-2004
Fed: CITES to consider crackdown on great white shark trade
By Denis Peters
CANBERRA, Sept 8 AAP - Efforts to crack down on trading body parts of the great white
shark will go international next month.
Although the great white is now fully protected in Australia, it is not in some other
countries, including New Zealand.
Sets of great white shark jaws have been offered for sale on the internet for about
$15,000 a set.
Individual teeth can sell for as much as $600 each.
A Florida dealer was quoted in today's New Zealand Herald as saying sharks' jaws with
5cm teeth were selling for as much as $US12,000 and $US15,000 ($A17,320 and $A21,650).
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