One of the many ways that conservationists are trying to tackle the massive declines in shark populations world-wide, is to set up areas where any and all sharks are protected completely from fishing. These are known as "shark sanctuaries". The idea is that sharks can have a stronghold in these areas, where their populations can bolster themselves, whilst they are being extracted in fisheries elsewhere. Yet shark sanctuaries have been criticised as a conservation strategy... But why is this? Do shark sanctuaries actually work? How are they contributing to shark conservation and how might they be improved?
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