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FisheriesCentre ResearchReports - Changes in the international trade in live seahorses (Hippocampus

10 Dec 2021

Much of the previous studies on the effects of listing of seahorses on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II on the trading of seahorses focus on dried seahorses. [...] First, the decline in reported trade is due to the fact that, as of 2018, the RST had prompted the end of permitted exports from Party/species combinations that together comprised 98% of wild seahorse exports in the CITES trade database (Foster & Vincent 2021). [...] CITES formally recognised a need to investigate the effects of the CITES listing and the RST processes on the live trade in seahorses at CITES CoP18, in July 2019. [...] 2.2.1 CITES trade data The CITES trade database (www.trade.cites.org), managed by the United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) on behalf of the CITES Secretariat, is publicly available and holds records of the international trade in wildlife species that are listed under the Convention. [...] As such, the CITES data provide an overview of legal and reported global trade from the time of the CITES listing for seahorses, in 2004.
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