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The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Florida state wildlife commission has approved a ban on the killing of tiger sharks and three species of hammerhead. The four shark species won protection at a meeting in Naples of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which voted to prohibit the killing of tiger sharks, great hammerheads, scalloped hammerheads and smooth hammerheads. Catch and release fishing will still be permitted.

The legislation is in response to the decline in shark numbers due to over fishing by the shark fin industry.