ELASMOBRANCHS AND THE FAO AN IGO'S ACTIVITIES ON CONSERVATION OF SHARKS AND RAYS

		Shark Conference 2000 Online Documents Honolulu, Hawaii February 21-24
Sponsored By: The Barbara Delano Foundation The Homeland Foundation The David & Lucile Packard Foundation The AVINA Foundation	Presented By: WildAid Hawaii Audubon Society Pacific Fisheries Coalition
ELASMOBRANCHS AND THE FAO AN IGO'S ACTIVITIES ON CONSERVATION OF SHARKS AND RAYS
R. Shotton Marine Resources Service Fisheries Department, FAO Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome Italy [email protected] Abstract The Fisheries Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization, in responding to initiatives arising from CITES and its own Committee of Fisheries (COFI), has undertaken a number of activities relating to the management issues of elasmobranchs. A core programme of the department has been the preparation of species identification guides. The first major multi-volume publication in 1984 is being updated and expanded and the revision and expansion of a 1978 publication on utilization of sharks was published in 1999. Several technical meetings to consider the management requirements of sharks and related species have been taken in response to a COFI initiative; these have resulted in an International Plan of Action for management of this group. A series of case studies on elasmobranch management have been prepared and other shark management guides are being written. FAO has a mandate to undertake further initiatives relating to conservation of this group in response to appropriate requests.

Shark Conference 2000
Online Documents
Honolulu, Hawaii February 21-24

Sponsored By:
The Barbara Delano Foundation
The Homeland Foundation
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
The AVINA Foundation

Presented By:
WildAid
Hawaii Audubon Society
Pacific Fisheries Coalition

ELASMOBRANCHS AND THE FAO AN IGO'S ACTIVITIES ON CONSERVATION OF SHARKS AND RAYS

R. Shotton
Marine Resources Service
Fisheries Department, FAO
Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome Italy
[email protected]

Abstract

The Fisheries Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization, in responding to initiatives arising from CITES and its own Committee of Fisheries (COFI), has undertaken a number of activities relating to the management issues of elasmobranchs. A core programme of the department has been the preparation of species identification guides. The first major multi-volume publication in 1984 is being updated and expanded and the revision and expansion of a 1978 publication on utilization of sharks was published in 1999. Several technical meetings to consider the management requirements of sharks and related species have been taken in response to a COFI initiative; these have resulted in an International Plan of Action for management of this group. A series of case studies on elasmobranch management have been prepared and other shark management guides are being written. FAO has a mandate to undertake further initiatives relating to conservation of this group in response to appropriate requests.