Ocean has some strong protections such as the OSPAR (1992 Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Northeast Atlantic) convention but protections from OSPAR are mostly coastal and don't protect aphyodes in any other parts of the ocean. The European Union has banned fishing for deepwater sharks as concerns over bycatch and bottom trawling continue and both total allowable catch and bycatch are set at 0 in its regulations. References External links white ghost catshark Fish of the North Atlantic Taxa named by Kazuhiro Nakaya Taxa named by Matthias Stehmann white ghost catshark