Dear Gulf and Caribbean fisheries colleagues,

FAO and CITES are pleased to inform you about the launch of iSharkFin, an expert system for the identification of shark species from shark fin shapes.

Further details have been posted on our FAO FI web page www.fao.org/fishery/ipoa-sharks/iSharkFin, where the software and a manual on how to use it are available for free. Please note that the download of the software may take some time, as it is a package of some 18 MB. [...]