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Project AWARE has reported that the Sri Lanka Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has enacted a new regulation that “prohibits catch, retention, transshipment, landing, storage, and/or sale of whole bodies or parts ofcommon thresher (Alopias vulpinus), the bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosis), and the pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus), and applies to fishing vessels operating in Sri Lankan waters or the high seas, as well as those using Sri Lankan ports. The measure also mandates the careful release of any thresher sharks caught incidentally in other fisheries, and proper recording of such incidents.”

Sri Lanka ranks number 14 in the world for shark catches.