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Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil 
Urgent Need for Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil
9 - 15 November 2009
Targeting Shark Conservation
The United Nations has passed eight resolutions calling on Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) to improve the management of shark fisheries. The U.N. International Plan of Action for Sharks called on RFMOs more than a decade ago to develop regional plans of action to conserve sharks.
Sharks caught in high-seas fisheries are among the oceans’ most vulnerable animals. Their low reproductive rates make them particularly susceptible to overfishing in the face of increased demand for shark products. More than half of the shark species taken in high-seas fisheries are classified as Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
This week’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) provides an important opportunity to improve the outlook for Atlantic sharks through concrete actions to limit their exploitation.
Source:
www.sharkalliance.org
THE SHARK ALLIANCE:
www.sharkalliance.org/v.asp?level2id=3&rootid=3&d...
Related Links *Pew Website
*ICCAT Sharks Factsheet
Shark Alliance
The Shark Alliance is a global, not-for-profit coalition of non-governmental organizations dedicated to restoring and conserving shark populations by improving shark conservation policies.
The Shark Alliance is focused on securing the following:
* Shark fishing limits in line with scientific advice and the precautionary approach, including stronger policies to prevent shark finning;
* Safeguards and conservation guidance for sharks through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES);
* A United Nations Resolution that includes ambitious timelines for implementation of the International Plan of Action for Sharks and lays out consequences for inaction.
Read of purpose (pdf) in:
English / French / German / Italian / Polish / Portuguese / Spanish
The Shark Alliance was initiated, and is coordinated, by the Pew Environment Group, the conservation arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-government organisation that is working to end overfishing in the world's oceans.
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at 18:24 on November 8th, 2009
Urgent Need for Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil
9 - 15 November 2009
Targeting Shark Conservation
Source:
www.sharkalliance.org
THE SHARK ALLIANCE:
www.sharkalliance.org
Related Links
Pew Website
ICCAT Sharks Factsheet
Shark Alliance
The Shark Alliance is focused on securing the following:
Read of purpose (pdf) in:
English / French / German / Italian / Polish / Portuguese / Spanish
The Shark Alliance was initiated, and is coordinated, by the Pew Environment Group, the conservation arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-government organisation that is working to end overfishing in the world's oceans.
at 08:41 on November 9th, 2009
In search of a future for bluefin tuna
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 01:00 (GMT + 9)
The members of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will debate through 15 November, in Recife, how to save the bluefin tuna and avoid the ‘disaster’ that fishers say the suspension of catch will provoke. Representatives of the ICCAT’s 50 Member States have gathered in Brazil to analyse possible restrictions and even a prohibition on bluefin tuna fishing, a proposal unwelcomed by the European Union’s (EU) fishing firms and the majority of entity members. According to the conservation group Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), the bluefin tuna can end up “disappearing completely” by 2012 if the present fishing rate continues. It is calculated that around 1.3 million tonnes of bluefin tuna is fished every year around the world, of which almost 50 per cent is harvested by the Japanese fleet – not members of ICCAT. The attendees of the 21st ordinary meeting will focus their debate on the fishing of th... FULL STORY
at 04:28 on November 9th, 2009
Monday, 02 November 2009 11:48
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www.fishnewseu.com/latest-news/world/2183-brazil-tuna-mee...
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at 05:54 on November 9th, 2009
URGENT NEED FOR SHARK CONSERVATION - ICCAT, Brazil
Sharks caught in high-seas fisheries are among the oceans’ most vulnerable animals. Their low reproductive rates make them particularly susceptible to overfishing in the face of increased demand for shark products. More than half of the shark species taken in high-seas fisheries are classified as Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
e United Nations has passed eight resolutions calling on Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) to improve the management of shark fisheries. The U.N. International Plan of Action for Sharks called on RFMOs more than a decade ago to develop regional plans of action to conserve sharks.
Despite these facts, there are still no international limits on high-seas shark catch rates, and loopholes hamper the enforcement of international bans on “finning”—the wasteful practice of slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea. Depletion of these key predators risks the health of entire ocean ecosystems.
This week’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) provides an important opportunity to improve the outlook for Atlantic sharks through concrete actions to limit their exploitation.
FISHERIES MANAGERS AGREE
In June 2009, delegates to the second joint meeting of the tuna RFMOs agreed to the following directive for sharks:
“Consistent with the FAO [U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization] International Plan of Action for Sharks (IPOA-Sharks), establish precautionary, science based conservation and management measures for sharks taken in fisheries within the convention areas of each tuna RFMO, including as appropriate:
Measures to improve the enforcement of existing finning bans;
Prohibitions on retention of particularly vulnerable or depleted shark species, based on advice from scientists and experts;
Concrete management measures in line with best available scientific advice with priority given to overfished populations;
Precautionary fishing controls on a provisional basis for shark species for which there is no scientific advice; and
Measures to improve the provision of data on sharks in all fisheries and by all gears.”
PRIORITY ACTION—Follow-Up Action by ICCAT
ICCAT was the first RFMO to ban shark finning, mandate shark catch data reporting and convene international shark stock assessments. With this record and associated advice, ICCAT is well-positioned to take the lead in implementing the directive from the second joint tuna RFMO meeting.
Specifically, at this year’s annual ICCAT meeting, the Shark Alliance and the Pew Environment Group call on ICCAT Parties to agree to:
A prohibition on the removal of shark fins at sea in order to improve enforcement of the shark finning ban and facilitate collection of species-specific catch data;
Prohibitions on retention of exceptionally vulnerable shark species, particularly the bigeye thresher, as recommended by ICCAT scientists;
Concrete limits that would significantly reduce fishing pressure on overfished North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks, in line with previous ICCAT Recommendations;
Precautionary measures to cap fishing for blue sharks to prevent overfishing;
Mechanisms to improve compliance with shark data collection mandates; and
An ambitious schedule for hosting a special porbeagle shark management meeting of representatives from interested RFMOs, as resolved in 2008.
HALF OF OPEN OCEAN SHARKS
ARE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
Protect them now before it’s too late
Matt Rand, Coordinator, Shark Alliance; Director of Global Shark Conservation, Pew Environment Group
p: +1-202-285-4859 e: mrand@pewtrusts.org Skype: matt.rand
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Brazil Tuna meeting needs to extend Spain’s initiative on shark protection
Monday, 02 November 2009 11:48
OCEANA, the international marine conservation organization, is calling on the European Union to present effective proposals to regulate sharks that are caught in the Atlantic Ocean during the upcoming meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in Recife, Brazil, 6-15 November.
www.fishnewseu.com/latest-news/world/2183-brazil-tuna-mee...
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Anyone interested in applying should visit the SNH website www.snh.org.uk"
www.mcsuk.org/marineworld/baskingsharks
Shark attack!
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Shark attack!
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SNH Commissioned Report 339: Basking Shark Hotspots on the West Coast of Scotland: Key sites, threats and implications for conservation of the species
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