Marine Species Regulated Under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regulates the trade of many marine species. The lists below highlight some of the species listed in CITES Appendices I and II.

Appendix I (hundreds of species):

• All beaked whales

• Almost all great whales (species subject to International Whaling Commission management)

• Marine turtles

• Coelacanth

• Dugong

• Irrawaddy river dolphin

• Shortnose sturgeon

• Six fur seal species

• Totoaba

• Three marine dolphin species (Australian snubfin dolphin, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, and Atlantic humpback dolphin)

• Two porpoise species

• All sawfish species

Appendix II (thousands of species):

• All antipatharian (black coral) species

• All dolphins not listed in Appendix I

• All giant clam species

• All stony coral species

• Basking shark

• Chambered nautilus

• Devil ray

• Great white shark

• Hammerhead sharks

• Humphead wrasse

• Most sturgeon species

• Oceanic whitetip shark

• Porbeagle shark

• Queen conch

• Seahorse

• Silky shark

• Thresher shark

• West Greenland stock of minke whales

• Whale shark