Member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) approved regulating trade in humphead wrasse, a giant coral reef fish threatened by the luxury food trade in Asia.
With sumptuous, fleshy lips and a bulbous, protruding forehead, the humphead wrasse is an unforgettable fish. This enormous, colorful coral-reef dweller is slow to reproduce, making it vulnerable to ...
Hong Kong, 2 February 2007—Reef fish such as Humphead Wrasse (also known as Napolean Wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus) are fast disappearing largely due to weakly regulated and illegal international trade, ...
The humphead wrasse is a friend of coral and eats crown-of-thorn starfish. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature lists the humphead wrasse as endangered and the bumphead parrotfish as ...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Fish lips and pig-nosed turtle eggs hardly sound like lip-smacking delicacies, but for some, they've become gourmet dining trends that have put two more species at risk from ...
RANGE: Throughout the Indo-Pacific Oceans, from the Red Sea and the coast of east Africa to the central Pacific, south from Japan to Melanesia, and including U.S. Pacific territories such as Guam ...