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The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group

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PSRA Meeting in Dakar, Senegal to be held December 3-5, 2007

CSRP-Sponsored Training Workshop For West African Scientists Held in Senegal (October 2007)

Shark Depredation and Unwanted Bycatch in Pelagic Longline Fisheries: Industry Practices and Attitudes and Shark Avoidance Strategies

A Collation and Summarization of Available Data on Deepwater Chondrichthyans: Biodiversity, Life History and Fisheries

More Oceanic Sharks Added to the IUCN Red List

Shark Trade Limits Endorsed by European Union

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Update

IUCN/SSC SSG Northeast Atlantic Chondrichthyan Workshop

IUCN - The World Conservation Union is an umbrella organization of the world's conservation agencies and institutions. It includes both governmental and non-governmental members.

The IUCN actively supports the conservation of biological diversity, the preservation of life-support systems, and the sustainable use of living resources. The IUCN has six Commissions, including the Species Survival Commission (SSC), the largest and most active unit.

Within the SSC are a series of specialist groups composed of conservation experts which promote action to arrest the loss of the world's biological diversity and to restore threat-ened species to safe and productive population levels. The Shark Specialist Group (SSG) and its regional shark specialist groups are composed of elasmobranch specialists willing to donate their time in identifying the problems associated with the maintenance of elasmobranch stocks in their regions.

One of the SSG's first goals upon formation was to consolidate regional status reports into a global Action Plan for the conservation of sharks. The Action Plan will highlight global and regional problem areas and is anticipated to be a useful tool in developing funding to support needed elasmobranch research programs. Similar Action Plans generated by other SSC Specialist Groups have proven to be valuable documents that have guided the direction of conservation and aided in the procurement of research funding. The SSG's Action Plan is now being developed with release expected within a year.

SSG Achievements In 2003

IUCN Shark Specialist Group Quadrennial Report 2004