PARIS: Indonesia and India on Tuesday were named as the world’s biggest catchers of sharks in an European Union (EU)-backed probe into implementing a new pact to protect seven threatened species of sharks and rays.

Indonesia and India account for more than a fifth of global shark catches, according to the wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic.

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