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Underwater Times has reported that at last week’s 15th Micronesian Chief Executive Summit, the leaders have passed a resolution to begin creating a regional sanctuary where shark fishing would be prohibited. The proposal also bans possession, sale and trade of shark fins and covers the waters of the Federated States of Micronesia and its four member States: The Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

The total area in the sanctuary would be two million square mile and crucially, this is the first time that such a co-operative agreement has been reached between regional governments.