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The Government of Fiji has been an active driver towards the conservation and management of sharks and rays regionally and globally. Fiji’s signing and ratification of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in 1993; agreement to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1997, where Fiji has since co-sponsored the Appendix II listing of nine species of mobula rays, three species of thresher sharks (Alopias species) and silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis)...