Basin-Scale Predator: Pacific Sleeper Sharks Influence Multiple National Waters

One slow-moving shark crosses international boundaries in darkness.

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Exclusive economic zones extend up to 200 nautical miles from a nation’s coastline.

The distribution of Pacific sleeper sharks across the North Pacific places them within the exclusive economic zones of multiple nations, from the United States to Russia and Japan.

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A single long-lived individual may traverse waters governed by different fisheries policies, illustrating how conservation challenges extend across geopolitical lines.

For a predator that takes decades to mature, coordinated international management becomes essential to protect giants that ignore human borders beneath the waves.

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